please update your update
May. 30th, 2005 04:02 pmSo there's a Windows box here on my desk to allow me to interact with Lotus Notes without killing someone (actually, it's supposed to be a dev platform for some project but that project got cancelled) and I decided I'd install some updates on it. From WindowsUpdate.com. In the optional section, there's the .NET runtime, so I figured I'd fling that on it. Fine, download, reboot, etc. Then I go back to WindowsUpdate out of curiosity and discover that it's now saying I need a critical patch (which it hadn't mentioned before). Turns out this is a critical patch for the .NET runtime I've just installed. Why, pray tell, can they not either update the base download, or include the patch as a non-mandatory dependency when you install the base?