We don't know if Microsoft or Adobe has more frequent updates to their software, and this mini rant is probably an extension of our annoyance with Growl we posted a couple of weeks ago, which granted is like centuries in Internet Years, but it's annoying. To be prompted for updates. Every freaking time you turn on your computer. Or try to use it.

Too frequent updates are the new Clippy by our reckoning.

Message to Adobe and Microsoft, and for that matter Apple, though it's not our experience that Apple are as egregiously update crazy: Group the updates together unless the update you need to push out for Acrobat Reader or Silverlight is going to save my life or bring immediate and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then stopping everything, or in the very least slowing everything down t-o   a   c-r-a-w-l, is ok. Really. Please. It's not like your software doesn't crash anyway. And we have stuff to do besides updating your software. Like using it.