Microsoft's Advantage and new complaint about needing dot net 1.1

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Is this legit? If so, I would guess it must be somehow related to
Microsoft's latest 'corrections' of their friggin 'genuine
advantage' (=for Microsoft) program. (No, I buy all my computers from
major vendors with pre-installed *LEGITIMATE* copies of Windows, but
Microsoft has to assume that I'm guilty until proven innocent--by
their buggy software. I see I've gotten sidetracked again...)

Not sure because I don't use this machine so often, so the complaints
on other machines about the new version of Microsoft's Advantage
started several days before I noticed this machine's new complaint. I
think it is actually a pre-complaint so that it can start the other
complaint--but I also worry that it could be some kind of attack on
Microsoft's terrible security.

Oh yeah, I suppose I better say what's going on, hadn't I? When I boot
this machine in Windows (normally I use Ubuntu Linux--and the machine
runs much better, too), it shows a popup window telling me that it
can't check for updates unless I upgrade Microsoft's dot net. I
suppose that's legit, but this is Microsoft, so who knows? Anyone else
seeing this?

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