Microsoft forces AutoPatcher to stop

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dualmeister

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:( Sad news.
Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the download page down.

We would like to thank you for your support. For the past 4 years, it has been a blast. Unfortunately, it seems like it's the end of AutoPatcher as we know it.
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http://www.autopatcher.com/
 
Probably cause they doing a better job at releasing updates in one package than Microsoft thus embarrassing them. :rolleyes:
 
F...ing idiots. Such a waste of bandwidth as everyone must now download everything for each machine. It's probably because AutoPatcher gave people the option of installing Genuine Windows or whatever it's called.
 
That 'advantage' validation rubbish? One more way to make life difficult for your paying customers... sigh.
 
Great! Thanks Microsoft for considering those of us with Limited bandwidth!!! ;)

We really know you love us now!

Now I have to re-download every friggin patch afresh on every new system I install all because you are too worried about "Malicous Code" being distributed with third party apps! It's your stupid OS that allows the malicious code in the first place you morons!!!! :mad::mad::mad:
 
there is always WSUS (windows server update services - i think) - yes it takes a little bit of admin and so on, but all is not lost.
 
Yes WSUS. Easy to set up and work just as well. Although we all know what autopatcher was good for...
 
And now all of the August 2007 AutoPatcher updates that I've downloaded (3 to be exact, all from different servers) are broken... Maybe they were broken to adhere to Microsoft's order? Sigh... :(
 
Yes and rumour has it Vista SP1 will be on the hefty side.

1Gig more or less.

It's gonna hurt when I have to reformat
 
What I don't understand is why the BIG ISP's in South Africa don't have local WSUS Servers that corporates can use to download from for their WSUS Servers. At the end of the day the ISP has to carry the cost and bandwidth usage of International Bandwidth. Surely it can't be the cost of the server as the amount of gigs used for WSUS updates can be huge. Just setup WSUS on the ISP side to download everything.
 
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