Microsoft Pushing Fake Updates To Windows 7 RC

Microsoft will be testing Windows 7 update infrastructure by pushing up to 10 dummy updates for release candidate installations worldwide as of tomorrow. A post on Microsoft Update Product Team Blog says that the exercise is part of the verification of some update scenarios to ensure that when real updates are sent, the process will run smoothly. Some of the updates will need human intervention to be installed and, the post continues, "one of the updates will test a new...