And what a bunch of fools they are for doing that. Autopatcher was a dream come true for people like me, it was an obvious and logical development that should never be stopped. Sad to see how MS just doesn’t understand its user-base, and doesn’t attempt to either. This will only mean a lot of extra angry users who will lose a lot of unnecessary time installing and using Windows. I do not curse out loud often, but this time I truly did.
I hope the autopatcher creators will simply make a move to the underground and peer-to-peer networks then. Autopatcher torrents will work fine as well. Just change the name is what I would say. AutopatcherNG (Next Generation). Apparently they do have plans to create something to replace it, but it will never be as comfortable as it was.