Google opens update software to scrutiny

Apr 14, 2009, 16:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Stephen Shankland)

""Some users can be surprised to find this program running, and at Google, we don't like disappointing our users. We've been working hard to address these concerns, and releasing the source code for Omaha is our attempt to make the purpose of Google Update totally transparent," Myles Jordan of Google's software engineering team and Michael Smith of its product management team said in a blog post last week."

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