my first official anti-ms vent

[Kevin Brown]

> I had one of those days at work yesterday. In fact,
> it's been about a week of those kind of days with an
> approaching launch date for my current project.
> 
> Something happened to the integration server, so the
> web-app was not working. After staying late the last
> few days, I still hadn't resolved everything yesterday
> evening when, a windows message popped up telling me
> my system had been updated and needed to restart.
> 
> WTF!!!! I never told it run windows update! I was able
> to press a button telling it to restart later. I had
> to wait. I was in the middle of a bunch of stuff and
> couldn't break right then. Well a few minutes later it
> came back. then again....... so you get the picture.
> F'N Microshaft forced an update on my machine and now
> I had to reboot! 
> 
> I was so ready to go home to my Fedora box. With a
> couple free minutes I had, I thought I get the
> external monitor (its a laptop) setup. But I messed
> something up and rebooted into windows to google my
> problem. As I was reading, what do you think popped
> up? "Your system has been updated...." GRRRR! 
> 
> So fine, I rebooted to CLI. cleaned up some space and
> started kde just fine. thank you very much.

This was one of microsoft's measures to reduce the number of unpatched 
systems.  By default it will download and install new patches and then 
pester the user every 10 or 15 minutes to reboot the system.