Last week I blogged that since Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has been sending updates almost every day. It continues almost unabated. I think there have been only two or three nights in the last 17 days when there has been no patch to apply.
This morning I had a look at the log. Since 15th August (well before SP1) there have been 58 separate attempts to apply the same security patch to PowerPoint 2007, It must be a very important security parch for them to try so hard. Especially as I do not own a copy of PP 2007.
The machine came with demo versions of Office 2007 pre-installed. These demos do their best to strong-arm you into buying the package. They are then very difficult to uninstall. I still have the problem that opening a Word 2003 document tells me it is in the wrong version. If I ignore the message and press on, it will eventually agree to open it in Word 2003. No doubt these repeated attempts at security patches are part of the same residual effect.
If products this invasive and disruptive came from any source other the Microsoft, MS would create security patches to defeat them.
