I love apps that get updates

I play Halo for the PC, and every time I get an update I am very excited... last time it meant a big reduction in the activities of team-killing losers, and I bet it will be equally cool next time. Lots of the applications on my machine have updates available, but unless they check on their own (like Adobe Acrobat, Halo, Messenger, and many others) or they check through Windows Update (like my sound card driver, etc...), then the odds are I will never install the patch/fix/update. Ah well, it certainly seems to be a trend though, more and more applications are updating themselves or at least telling me when an update is available (that isn't so bad, but the odds are I won't click on the link to update if I'm in the middle of trying to get something done...).

Anyway, if anyone is ever looking for me in Halo, I play on the Bungie servers (BNG-CTF-1 through 4) and go by the name of Duncan... usually a game or two between the hours of 10pm PST and 2am PST.

Maybe I'll see you there!

[Listening to: Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz - Big Shiny Tunes, Vol. 3 (03:42)]

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2004
  My privacy concerns are just getting bigger with the auto update checking trend. I will never let any application connect to the Net (as long as my firewall lets me have control and provided that the app can run without a connection in the first place).
  
  I do like and appreciate Windows Update, though.
  
  So I guess people are different and we just need to have options there that will appeal to and satisfy everyone in the end.