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.

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 ...

Version 1.05 is ready for download: AutoPatcher now works by downloading the updates straight from MS instead of distributing the updates packages themselves. The only problem it seems to have is that ...