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Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up?

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In message <d3erqiF5nifU1@mid.individual.net>, at 19:43:14 on Mon, 17 
Aug 2015, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> remarked:

>  It is highly unusual - to put it mildly - to tie the software
>distribution mechanism of an OS to the device manufacturer. There is
>also no valid reason to do that. Other OSes are perfectly capable of
>seperating the general - i.e. the OS itself - and device-specific parts.
>I.e. the OS supplier supplies updates for the OS and the device
>manufacturer supplies the device-specific updates.

It's not unique to phones/tablets, the same happens with some laptops.

The one I'm typing on at the moment has at least a dozen "extras", some 
of them utilities and others "built-in" as device drivers.

Obvious ones are drivers for the power management but there's also a 
fan-speed control, another for its somewhat quirky touchpad. Altogether 
there's over twenty separate files required to update the original Vista 
to Windows 7, most of which are neither included with the generic 
Windows 7 nor are available from normal "driver download" sites.

So while it can be updated with normal Microsoft security patches, if we 
regard Win7 as a "patch" for Vista (in the same way Lollipop is a patch 
for KitKat) then it's hard work to upgrade. The manufacturer produced 
files for Win7, but you have to download and install them by hand. They 
haven't developed files for Win8.0 and later.
-- 
Roland Perry

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Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2015-08-11 11:07 -0400
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-11 15:41 +0000
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:09 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:32 +0000
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:13 -0500
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-08-12 07:16 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-11 20:38 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? "Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-08-12 22:42 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-18 21:28 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 08:55 +0100
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:13 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:11 -0500
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-12 20:03 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@notmine.null> - 2015-08-17 13:47 -0500
        Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-17 19:43 +0000
          Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:47 +0100
            Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-01 20:40 +0000
              Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-02 07:45 +0100
                Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-02 17:51 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-18 23:38 +0000

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