Star Microsoft Apologizes for Update Blunder
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Oct 2007 20:03 UTC, submitted by Geonon
Windows Microsoft has apologized for a Windows Server update that automatically installed the Windows Desktop Search tool on users' desktops without approval. The mistake happened because Microsoft reused the same update package for when WDS was first published in February as an optional update that was only applicable to systems with the search tool previously installed.
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RE[2]: Suspicious
by ShadesFox on Mon 29th Oct 2007 22:38 UTC in reply to "RE: Suspicious"
ShadesFox
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2006-10-01

My favorite is a combination of that quote and another,
"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

Edited 2007-10-29 22:38

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