Speak of the Devil, and the devil he doth appear

I posted earlier on poorly designed error messages and the very next message I opened rewarded me with this error message.

A brilliant error message I’m sure you’ll agree; telling you nothing of the problem nor giving you any suggested course of action to solve it!
I think that’s been in Outlook Express for 7 or more [...]

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Microsoft Update pushes 10 updates this Tuesday

I turned my computer on yesterday to find a barrage of updates from MS Update… you can see this both ways.
a. It’s great they maintain their products
b. How do they find so many updates each week; and also why do we wait (at worst) a week for an update that’s done?
To be fair, in a [...]

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