Markus (2/18/2014)
I can understand both sides of it really... the thing is a furnace, washer, car doesn't run completely on software that needs to be patched every single month. If Microsoft kept supporting every single operating system forever they would have a nightmare on their hands and it would be quite expensive for them to write a patch for each different operating system. So, it is a little different than a mechanical product sitting in your kitchen.
Every appliance, car, or other consumer item is possibly subject having a recall, and or the lower level of a permanent warranty item.
And if the SW was actually built correctly, why does it need monthly patches?
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Jim P.
A little bit of this and a little byte of that can cause bloatware.