I've had my new computer up and running for a reasonable amount of time now. It came with the OS from a certain Big Brother like company that shall remain nameless. Every day, it has been asking me if I'd like to download updates, and I've been refusing since I've been rather busy pounding away on the keyboard.

Today, however, I have to work on something that doesn't require me to be on-line as much, so I thought I'd let it do its thing. I clicked on the notice about updating, and prepared to allow it to update a couple of things. I scrolled through the list. I kept on scrolling. And I kept on scrolling. There must have been 30 items listed as "Critical Security Updates".

Call me crazy, but I personally feel that they may need to think about updating their software periodically to cover some of these issues when the OS is freshly installed. This is even more irritating given that most computers don't come with the OS CD anymore, and the vendors just install it, and (hopefully) provide a recovery disk. The OS manufacturer just needs to place updated (and secure?) software packages on a site for the vendors to download. It's not a huge logistics problem involving the recalling and replacing of millions of CDs, or cutting in a product line and scrapping old disks. Then again, I'm not much of a business person...

Critically Insecure?