1. Like many geeky folks, Christmas is a time where I play sys-admin for a few days and ensure that family computers and the like are up to date. I’ve spent a fair bit of time looking at Software Update screens over the last few days - from Macs to Wiis, Xboxes to PS3s. This screen is from the PS3 update system, and annoys the hell out of me. The wording of the error message implies that update data was found. But it’s totally ambiguous as to whether there’s actually an update available. Hell, the message seems more self-congratulatory to the Sony engineers that the system actually connected to the Internet and found update data than providing any meaningful information to the end user.

    Like many geeky folks, Christmas is a time where I play sys-admin for a few days and ensure that family computers and the like are up to date. I’ve spent a fair bit of time looking at Software Update screens over the last few days - from Macs to Wiis, Xboxes to PS3s. This screen is from the PS3 update system, and annoys the hell out of me.

    The wording of the error message implies that update data was found. But it’s totally ambiguous as to whether there’s actually an update available. Hell, the message seems more self-congratulatory to the Sony engineers that the system actually connected to the Internet and found update data than providing any meaningful information to the end user.

    Posted on Saturday December 26th, 2009