Don’t force me to upgrade!
Why, oh why do developers – I’m looking at YOU Microsoft – decide that its ok to force you to upgrade software?
I wanted to try out Windows Live Writer. So I head over to the download site, remove the items from the Live package that I don’t want, and then I see that I’ll be given a forced update to Messenger also. There is no way to remove this option.
I don’t bloody want to upgrade Messenger! I can’t remember my reasons for not wanting to upgrade, but when I collected installers for my recent new build, I made a conscious decision that there was something in the newest version of Messenger that I didn’t want, so I grabbed a slightly older version. There were no cricical security holes and no incompatibilities in the older version, but these arrogant plonkers have decided that if I want to try out one more of their free software offerings I HAVE to upgrade another, entirely unrelated program.
It may well be that the newer version runs faster, tells my friends what I ate for breakfast and places advertisements more effectively in the program window (hooray for HOSTS files) – I don’t care. I was perfectly happy with the version that I had, and Live Writer is going to have to be astonishingly good to make up for the arrogance of the decision to force upgrades to different programs.
