Source: The Times of India
The software giant Microsoft plans to test Windows 7's update mechanism by sending users of the just-issued Release Candidate as many as 10 fake updates in the current week.
In a blog post, Brandon LeBlanc, a Microsoft spokesman, wrote, "We will release up to ten test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 RC in order to verify our ability to deliver and manage updating of Windows 7 in certain real-life scenarios."
Users running Windows 7 RC, which publicly debuted on May 4, will be offered the mock updates beginning on Tuesday, May 12, said LeBlanc. "These updates do not deliver any new features or fixes," LeBlanc explained in the blog post.
In another post on Microsoft Update team wrote, "Many of the updates will install automatically, and a few will not. One of the updates will test a new update notification feature that provides detailed information about available updates that need to be installed manually. Windows 7 RC users will be prompted to install this update and provided more information about this feature ?it will not install automatically."
This is the second time that Microsoft has released phony updates for Windows 7; in February, it tested the beta by delivering five bogus patches.
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