More Integration of Windows Update
June 3, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS updates available for my wife’s laptop?
Although my wife is running Vista, you can tell from the graphic to the left from my Windows XP Pro machine that Windows Update does in fact have the ability to look for updates to hardware components, software, OS updates obviously and even beta software option.
Why in the world wouldn’t Windows Update also see the updates that are available on the Toshiba support website?
I did see a few different updates on the Toshiba website that I think I have seen come across via Windows Update, but the multiple BIOS updates were clearly missing.
Does this functionality fall more into the hands and responsibility of Toshiba to work with Microsoft or vice-versa?
Personally I think Windows Update is a really great feature of the Windows OS. It makes managing the variety of my software packages much easier.
What I really hate is when other companies, like HP, have their own separate update applications that they want you to install and run on your machines. They frequently come with printers and such.
Why don’t they just work with what’s already available and let Microsoft know how and what to look for potential updates?
Right. I’ve never understood this – instead of working with micorosft update, hardware and software vendors instead have us run lots of small update programs, all clogging up our PC and slowing down start-up times.
Jason,
I blame this on the other companies — not Microsoft. See, they already provide the architecture and environment for the automated updates and I’m sure that it’s no more than an RSS feed to implement new updates into the system. Companies like HP, Toshiba and Dell should all want to work with them to help keep their systems up to date and running well.