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?

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More Integration of Windows Update

Today, again… I tried to download and install the update manually. First I downloaded the 218MB Office 2007 SP1 update file and tried to install it.

Then I tried to install it again in safe-mode with no luck.

Then I thought maybe I needed to try and install the SP1 Language update first. So I downloaded the 37MB file for that and tried.

I’ve been looking here, here and here, oh yeah, and here. The last one told me to run the Windows Install 3.1 program so I downloaded that and installed it and tried again.

Then I saw…

@$(*^@(*!%!

I’m now beyond irritated!

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Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Failures Continue