Why can’t I just click “Install Updates” and walk away?

After all these years.  All the upgrades, complaints, replacments and new versions – we still need to interact with our Windows Update process. It started out years ago with the special program interaction that was required with IE installations for WU.  Then it was the Malicious Software Removal Tool and Service Packs.  Now we have this silly Microsoft Live Installer.

It would seem to me that the easiest way to get more users to install updates would be to actually make it easier for them to do! Could Microsoft not really want users to install updates?  Do they enjoy being lambasted in the blogosphere about how insecure their systems allegedly are?

Maybe the folks over at Microsoft have been misunderstood all along. Maybe they make these boneheaded decisions on purpose.  Maybe they are just masochists and they thrive on pain and torture.  They’d rather fight the big fight rather than do the little things that might make our lives easier.

I suppose on some level we all like the pain.  That’s why we still put up with it.