{"id":563,"date":"2005-02-07T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/windows-update-services-name-change.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:19:07","slug":"windows-update-services-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/windows-update-services-name-change.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update Services name change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110778854418228832--><\/p>\n<p>Windows Update Services (WUS) is the new name for Software Update Services (SUS). Except it might not be. Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/tfl09.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/windows-update-service-name-change.html\">Thomas Lee<\/a> (who is well placed to comment on such things, being both a <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/isv\/rd\/\">Microsoft Regional Director<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/\">MVP<\/a>) quite rightly pointed out that WUS a) sounds bad; and b) is not an accurate description of what the product does.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about SUS\/WUS see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susserver.com\/\">SUSserver.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wus.editme.com\/\">Windows Update Services Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Update Services (WUS) is the new name for Software Update Services (SUS). Except it might not be. 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