Microsoft plans to issue faux updates for Win 7

[GoNz0]

Microsoft will spit out dummy updates for Windows 7 beta testers next week that will probe the forthcoming operating system’s updating abilities.

The software firm said no new features or bug fixes would be added via the updates that will be available from 24 February as manual downloads.

Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc said on the company’s corporate blog that up to five updates will be released to PCs running the Windows 7 beta (build 7000) via its Windows Update service.

“These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7. We typically verify servicing scenarios during a beta,” he said.

LeBlanc was at pains to emphasise that the updates wouldn’t actually update anything. Instead they would “simply replace system files with the same version of the file currently on the system,” he said.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02...update_tester/

[badass]

Microsoft will spit out dummy updates for Windows 7 beta testers next week that will probe the forthcoming operating system’s updating abilities.

The software firm said no new features or bug fixes would be added via the updates that will be available from 24 February as manual downloads.

Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc said on the company’s corporate blog that up to five updates will be released to PCs running the Windows 7 beta (build 7000) via its Windows Update service.

“These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7. We typically verify servicing scenarios during a beta,” he said.

LeBlanc was at pains to emphasise that the updates wouldn’t actually update anything. Instead they would “simply replace system files with the same version of the file currently on the system,” he said.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02...update_tester/

If windows 7 actually allowed me to use the "send feedback" tool for the several bugs/undesirable behaviour i've experienced with Windows 7 then I would gladly let them test their windows updates on me. But now I can't be bothered to help them.