A day after Microsoft Corp. shut down a free alternative to Windows Update, the program’s 20-year-old developer said he is talking with the company about what it would take to resurrect his project.

Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very ...

Microsoft puts kibosh on a four-year-old “offline Windows Update” tool popular with administrators and consumers, saying it fears the utility could be avenue for malicious software. On the same day ...

Some of you may never have heard of AutoPatcher. Well, how many of you have received a new computer with Windows XP SP2, and immediately hooked it up to the Internet to download all the post-SP2 ...

Microsoft forced a popular alternative to Windows Update off the Internet Wednesday after sending the maker of AutoPatcher cease-and-desist e-mail. The free utility has been removed from its download ...

Reinstalling Windows is never a fun process, especially the part just after the installation when you have a seemingly endless list of critical and optional software updates to download and install.

“Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate takedown of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history,” said project manager Antonis Kaladis ...

AutoPatcher, a four-year-old project to distribute Microsoft patches and other updates to software that runs on Windows, has shut down because of a Microsoft request. "Today we received an e-mail from ...