Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2

I_am_Rambi writes "On Tuesday, April 12, Microsoft will turn off the blocking feature that has made it possible for some enterprises to block Windows XP Service Pack 2 downloads by employees who use Automatic Update. That means in companies that used the blocking tool, SP2 will be downloaded automatically to desktop computers that use Windows' Automatic Update feature." An anonymous reader adds "Microsoft has published a list of known software that will not work with Service Pack 2. Most of the software will either not run or will display a blue screen of death during installation of the software or when you start up your computer." That may be why, as ErichTheWebGuy writes, "In a survey of PCs at 251 businesses in the U.S. and Canada, asset tracking company AssetMetrix of Ottawa found that only 24 percent of the systems running Windows XP had been upgraded to Service Pack 2."

Comments

Photoshop CS

[bmw]

That's interesting that they list Photoshop CS 8.0 among the programs that don't work with SP2. I happen to have used this version of Photoshop on several machines running SP2 without any problems whatsoever.

Re:We have ways of making you do things.

[budgenator]

The problem programs, from the looks to me are programs that depend on windows being completely clueless on security. Right now the move from completely clueless to moderately clueless is causing much gnashing of teeth. If microsoft ever "gets it" on security, almost every program the windozers use will have to be rewritten to work. Imagine not allowing a computer program to just automaticaly answering any ol' incoming connection!
Right now all of the common "ET phone home" programs mean that the wife's 3 GHz windowsXP machine takes as long to go from user login to a usable desktop as my 700MHz linux machine takes to load KDE to a useable desktop.