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There isn't law that mandates they split security updates from feature updates. What if they rewrote a component to have new features and it also fixed a secur
by Jonnax 6y ago
There isn't law that mandates they split security updates from feature updates.
What if they rewrote a component to have new features and it also fixed a security issue?
What's the difference between a security patch and a bug fix?
At the end of the day if someone gets so angry that Microsoft added Paint 3D in an update that they disabled updates.
What's the obligation here?
They chose not to update their computer.
- Silhouette 6y agoThere isn't law that mandates they split security updates from feature updates. I'm suggesting that perhaps there should be. In what other area of consumer protection law does a manufacturer or reseller get to provide a seriously defective product and then refuse to deal with the problem unless the buyer also accepts other changes that might make the product significantly different and possibly in their view significantly worse than the one they chose to buy? The principle is important here. Your example about Paint 3D is cute, but in reality, there are plenty of other examples where user-hostile software changes have been pushed out after purchase, including those that disabled previously available functionality, reduced privacy, introduced advertising, or dramatically changed the look and feel of the product. People shouldn't be forced to accept these kinds of unwanted retrospective changes to the product they originally chose to buy just to maintain an adequate level of security.