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March 17, 2004

SUS Is Now WUS

Leave it to the Microsoft marketing department to screw things up. Two reasons (besides customer confusion) renaming Software Update Services (SUS) 2.0 to Windows Update Services (WUS) is a bad move:

  1. SUS 1.0 distributes patches to computers running the Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 OS's. SUS/WUS 2.0 is supposed to support distributing to other MS applications like SQL Server, Exchange, and Office. Why make the name more specific to "Windows" (the operating system itself) at this point?
  2. SUS (pronounced "suss") was a unique-enough name. WUS will probably make the Unix guys I work with call me names.

(Note for clarity: Among my many hats at work, I'm one of the SUS administrators.)

Posted by Alex Harden on March 17, 2004 4:20 PM |

Comments

Heh, heh, heh.... Thanks for the info, as a mostly Unix guy I needed some ammo for the Windows guys on the other side of the wall. ;) Heh, WUSs... I like it.

Posted by: Scotbuff | March 17, 2004 8:01 PM

Trust me, I won't make any more fun of you than I did before you because a WUSs. :)

Posted by: Don | March 17, 2004 8:19 PM

LOL. That is pretty funny. I deal with Microsoft stuff everyday here at work (heck they practically pay my salary) and I hate every minute of it. You know Apple would never make anything with a name like WUS.

Posted by: Jonathan | March 18, 2004 2:17 PM

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