WUS-Out: Windows Update Services Goes Beta
For this week's unfortunate acronym award comes the beta test of Microsoft's Windows Update Service (WUS)(see the story from eWeek here). MS is big on WUS and expects the follow-on to the Software Update Service to ship sometime in mid-year 2005.
MS revealed its WUS at the IT Forum show in Copenhagen where, among other things, Bill Gates did a demo of various new technologies. Gates would like to spread WUS as widely as possible during this beta test to ensure as many programming holes as possible can be filled before shipping.
However, leaks regarding problems with WUS have circulated for some time, especially since its been behind schedule by 12 months. Nonetheless, MS is insisting WUS will mature into a robust solution to the problem of software updates.