CAUTION: Important Update - WE 2011

Today's Window Update "promoted" Live Essentials 2011 to "Important
update" - as opposed to "Optional update". I wonder how many lemmings will
be herded into this.

Lesson Learned: *DO NOT* set Windows Update to install dates automatically.

You have been warned.

It was listed as important as of Tuesday here. I do not believe that it
would install automatically unless it was listed as critical.

"Magnus" <> wrote in message
news:8fpwo.15139$...
> Today's Window Update "promoted" Live Essentials 2011 to "Important
> update" - as opposed to "Optional update". I wonder how many lemmings will
> be herded into this.
>
> Lesson Learned: *DO NOT* set Windows Update to install dates
> automatically.
>
> You have been warned.
>

>It will not install automatically.”

Thanks for the clarification. I already expunged my system of this blight
once, and didn't want it foisted upon me unknowingly.

If another security issue arises(like that which occurred with WLMsgr in
the past) and you are also using WLMsgr on Vista or Win7(XP no longer
applies sinces no updates will be released for XP)......history has shown
the following requirements...(noted in the sequence they have occurred)
1. suggested upgrade before a date(user initiated manually or via a prompt
when opening WLMsgr or optional via MU)
2. Notification that an upgrade is mandatory before a specific date(user
initiated or via MU)
3. Final Notification - not upgrading will not allow WLMsgr to logon. Logon
capability restored after upgrading.

Thus if using Vista/Win7 and WLMsgr(2009 or 2011)...expunge may be short
term.

Since WLMsgr and WLM are integrated applications and sharing a slew of
supporting components....anything necessitating an upgrade in WLMsgr may
also very well impact the need to upgrade WLM(on Vista/Win7) regardless of
version(2009 or 2011)

If using XP and above occurs and the risk is significant..support for XP
could be moved up from the current status of 'the foreseeable future' to a
definitive date.


....winston

"Magnus" wrote in message news:Iptwo.5140$...

>It will not install automatically.”

Thanks for the clarification. I already expunged my system of this blight
once, and didn't want it foisted upon me unknowingly.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

"...winston" <> wrote in message
news:i9u71a$iaf$...
> If another security issue arises(like that which occurred with WLMsgr in
> the past) and you are also using WLMsgr on Vista or Win7(XP no longer
> applies sinces no updates will be released for XP)......history has shown
> the following requirements...(noted in the sequence they have occurred)
> 1. suggested upgrade before a date(user initiated manually or via a prompt
> when opening WLMsgr or optional via MU)
> 2. Notification that an upgrade is mandatory before a specific date(user
> initiated or via MU)
> 3. Final Notification - not upgrading will not allow WLMsgr to logon.
> Logon
> capability restored after upgrading.
>
> Thus if using Vista/Win7 and WLMsgr(2009 or 2011)...expunge may be short
> term.
>
> Since WLMsgr and WLM are integrated applications and sharing a slew of
> supporting components....anything necessitating an upgrade in WLMsgr may
> also very well impact the need to upgrade WLM(on Vista/Win7) regardless of
> version(2009 or 2011)
>
> If using XP and above occurs and the risk is significant..support for XP
> could be moved up from the current status of 'the foreseeable future' to a
> definitive date.
>
>
> ...winston
>
> "Magnus" wrote in message news:Iptwo.5140$...
>
>>It will not install automatically.”
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I already expunged my system of this blight
> once, and didn't want it foisted upon me unknowingly.
>

Magnus wrote...
> Today's Window Update "promoted" Live Essentials 2011 to "Important update" - as opposed to "Optional update". I wonder how many
> lemmings will be herded into this.
> ...
> You have been warned.

À propos...
I've just posted this over at windowslivehelp.com:
There are dozens of threads about missing contacts after the upgrade. One of the moderators' responses reads:

<quote>

Is your contacts still available in your account through your email provider's website? If yes, all you have to do is to
reconfigure your account in Windows Live Mail program.

But if these contacts you are referring are saved locally, I'm sorry to tell you but these contacts cannot be retrieved.

</unquote>

The first part of this is nonsense. No amount of configuring or re-configuring mail accounts will have any effect on the contacts
list, unless something major has changed that I'm not aware of. I simply cannot fathom what the moderator is thinking.

The second part is far more serious. If I understand it correctly, then the Default set of contacts - those available when the
user is not signed in in WLMail - are blithely and irrevocably deleted when the update is installed. I can hardly believe that this
is the case, but if it is, then I would ask whether any warning is given to those who trustingly install an update classified by
Windows Update as Recommended or Important, depending on circumstances. WLMail allows for up to 5000 contacts in the Default set. I
shudder to think of the consequences for, say, a small businessman who keeps his client data in his Default contacts.

Would someone from MSFT please confirm or refute what the moderator wrote about locally-saved contacts?
--
Noel