Well as they say it’s back to business. I was reading an article that Adobe is planning to promote stealth updates to it products in the not too distant future. Now initially that sounds great, not having to worry about keeping applications updated. But where will this technology go from here will the other vendors join the bandwagon? What are the risks of using self updating applications, oh sure to the end user it’s a Godsend, but for administrators like me and you, we have to clean up the mess that a badly written patch brings.

At this point you are probably thinking that I don’t support this development! Well on the contrary I do, however as all automated updating technologies have shown in the past. Software companies have to ensure that administrators can test patches and decide when and how they will be deployed.

It’s not just Adobe either a large number of vendors including Microsoft occasionally deploy critical updates in this manner, but the question remains. Is this how it will be for all software in the future? Hmm let’s wait and see!