Microsoft recommends you ignore Microsoft-recommended update

Puts the urgent urging

towards "The only safe thing is to tick the 'always update without waiting for approval' box" nattering from the "all your box are belong to us" crowd (vendors, carriers, TLAs...) into perspective. OK, only for those who hear about it at all, the less than .01% of folks who get their news from ElReg or the like, rather than their local news station.

Again: Why must emergency security updates also include "oh, by the way, now we send all your family data to somebody named Blofeld, because we can (it's in the EULA!) " appendages? And as pointed out above, if you don't tick the box, you can choose letting bored teenagers also get that Blofeld feed or have all your documents rendered in Comic Sans (if you are lucky enough. That's one of the lighter punishments for updating by other means than buying a whole new computer).

As soon as those of us who remember not having to recompile the world (or buy the update of all apps) every time a font was added (and resent how it works now) succumb to old age, humanity will presumably enter a true wonkers paradise.

That is almost as funny as the time Installing IE 9 utter broke the management console for Exchange 2007 and 2010. And by broke meaning 'you can open it, but you get an error message trying to close it' which meant that you had to whip open task manager and kill the underlying MMC process that it was running. Bunches of enjoyment from that technet community thread.

Oh wait, that's not funny at all.