Microsoft’s flawed approach to application updates wreaks havoc on Windows PCs

WinRAR has a massive security hole that's still being actively exploited, and it's one of many Windows applications that do not auto-update. The developer boasts of more than 500 million WinRAR installations around the world, so it's likely that hundreds of millions of PCs are vulnerable to malicious ZIP files today.

How is it that, in 2023, the world's most popular desktop operating system doesn't provide an easy way to update your installed applications?

It baffles me that Windows and macOS users still have to manually keep track of and update each and every one of their applications individually, like it's 1997 or something.

Stay safe. It's the wild west out there for some of you.