gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » window server 2008 http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adding 5 Words With A 56 Megabyte Windows Updatehttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/11/adding-5-words-with-a-56-megabyte-windows-update/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/11/adding-5-words-with-a-56-megabyte-windows-update/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:28:12 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5294 Lets talk about inefficiency. Microsoft just released an update that adds five words to the English dictionary file that has an impressive size of 56 Megabytes. The five words that are added by this update that is available through a Knowledge Base article and Windows Update are “Friendster”, “Klum”, “Nazr”, “Obama” and “Racicot”.

The update applies to all editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Probably even better than having to download a 56 Megabyte file for five additional words is the fact that the computer has to be restarted after updating the operating system.

The explanation on the other hand is quite boring. The update replaces the dictionary files with the updated versions meaning the user is actually downloading the full dictionary files and not just a patch that adds the five words to them.

Most users on the other hand will probably never use those five words anyway, lets hope that this update will be optional and not mandatory.

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