Microsoft Genuine Disadvantage
I've been reserving opinion on the whole Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage bruhaha, but I'm a little irked this morning. Working four day weeks in the summer doesn't mean I don't sometimes need access to my workstation back at the office, but Automatic Updates seems to put a kink in that plan from time to time. Updates that require a reboot (while I'm logged out, mind you) tend to lock out any further remote access to my workstation, and it will sit there deaf dumb and blind until I move my mouse on Monday morning. I don't know if this is a complication introduced by the Novell client, or what, but the latest out-of-cycle WGA update left me high and dry when I needed remote access to some files over the weekend. Irritating, to say the least. It's back to "Download updates but let me decide when to install them" for me.