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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Aug 2013 06:54
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Anyone ever heard of this? Would be nice for new OS installs.

http://ninite.com/

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Seditious
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Posted: 16th Aug 2013 21:26
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Android pretty much does this itself, except it will silently download and install updates in the background. I guess it would be nice if something similar were integrated into Windows, but then all programs would have to be part of some kind of centralised database, and I can't see that happening.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 17th Aug 2013 17:27
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That's a great add-on for Windows! It's such a pain to have EVERY damn application running its own update "daemon", or whatever they call those memory thieves. It's a bit of a hack to get functionality that should be an intrinsic part of the OS, but hey, MSoft aren't implementing it.
I don't know why there is a GNU/Linux version though, since this has always been standard behaviour on GNU/Linux.



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Mobiius
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Posted: 17th Aug 2013 18:17
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Windows 8 Metro already does this too.

But it would be handy when reinstalling all your programs onto a new windows install. (other than slipstreaming them into the build that is.)


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