Well I am sure that I am not the only one who has gone to to computer in the morning, ready to copy the transcoded versions of a two hour movie to his iPod, so that he can watch it in the train,
on the way to work- only to find that his PC has been rebooted by Microsoft, because of the patches.

Nor am I the only one who has left work in progress on the PC, so that I could take a shower, get a bite to eat, etc…, and have come back with their PC rebooted, again my MS.

All of this as a result of MS “knowing what’s best for you” and rebooting your PC without your consent. Oh sure, if you are at your PC all of the time, you get a nice message telling you that you should reboot, and if you choose to ignore it, you get the nag-message a few mins. later.

I have worked with people who do VFX rendering, and loath MS’s monthly update features, because they risk loosing a whole night’s work of rendering, when their PC is rebooted during a rendering.

Sure, you can turn off the “automatic updates”feature, impractical but possible, and better yet use the “manual updates”, but unless you turn off the update features completely, some “critical” updates can still reboot your PC for you.

And to top that off, even if you do turn off all updating features, and only use the web to update your PC, then you are still faces with the nagging “please reboot your system” message, that will not go away.

So, while this update may not have directly been the cause of Skype’s systems to go offline, and can’t seriously help but wonder if it didn’t have a part in it.

just my two cents