Saturday, March 21, 2009

When is an update not an update?

That is a question I've asked myself twice this week.

First was an iTunes update of 85Mb. iTunes updates are suspiciously about the same size as new installs. I'm not the only one to notice this. Rick Broida from PC World called iTunes' updates one of the 11 things he hates. For the remaining 10, see

The second case of update-itis I had was with Power DVD. I installed Power DVD 7.3 that came with my LG Blu-ray drive for my media PC (more on this drive later). When I installed it, I was prompted to install an update.

OK. 110Mb later, update installed.Re-start Power DVD and guess what? I'm asked to install another update. 85Mb later and I'm fully up-to-date.

So, did I update or uninstall and install? Hmmm.

No comments: