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This bit from Ian Mercer made my blood boil: >> "One of the biggest issues today is that WU provides no way to promote a download to an ...

This bit from Ian Mercer made my blood boil: >> "One of the biggest issues today is that WU provides no way to promote a download to an end-user. We want to promote MM2 and WMP98 to end-users as something new and cool that they can get for Windows. Three lines of text describing it buried under "Windows XP" in a page that the user has to purposefully go find just isn’t good enough. Why can’t the WU client-side piece proactively display a bubble "Look! Cool, new features for Windows XP" and the option to display a much richer "advertisement" for the feature if the user wants to read more?" If Windows Update did these types of pop-up promotions I would throw my computer out the window.

Posted by enraged_camel on May 11, 2015, 3:55 PM

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This bit from Ian Mercer made my blood boil: >> "One of the biggest issues today is that WU provides no way to promote a download to an ...

enraged_camelMay 11, 2015, 3:55 PM

This bit from Ian Mercer made my blood boil: >> "One of the biggest issues today is that WU provides no way to promote a download to an end-user. We want to promote MM2 and WMP98 to end-users as something new and cool that they can get for Windows. Three lines of text describing it buried under "Windows XP" in a page that the user has to purposefully go find just isn’t good enough. Why can’t the WU client-side piece proactively display a bubble "Look! Cool, new features for Windows XP" and the option to display a much richer "advertisement" for the feature if the user wants to read more?" If Windows Update did these types of pop-up promotions I would throw my computer out the window.

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