Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2

bonch writes "Tom's Hardware Guide is running an article about Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its limited acceptance by IT administrators. AssetMetrix is cited in the article as reporting that fewer than 24% of over 136,000 Windows XP PCs in 251 North American corporations even had SP2 installed. THG goes on to describe the reasons given by admins and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of installing SP2."

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Re:no comment

[Anonymous Coward]

oh ha ha. So it's a joke about windows admins being lazy, or stupid or something to that effect. Hurray for stupidity on all fronts. Including prejudice. Be it prejudice based on color or operating system, keeping up the pissed off antisocial attitude won't help the movement. It's socially inept angry fingerpointers who ruin any chance of our being taken seriously.

Mention how there was a serious flaw in the execution blocking in SP2, or how the anal retentive firewall can be bypassed by one crafted activex script in a webpage in IE. Don't try some lame ass joke that only works at defcon.

Re:SP2 soon to be FORCED upon us...

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

So what do you mean by "obtained?" Stolen? "Borrowed?" And what do you mean by "spidering?" Trying to spam the addresses on my websites? Do everyone a favor and just post your IP so the Business Software Alliance can catch you warezing.

MOD ABUSE

[Anonymous Coward]

Flamebait does not mean "I disagree with this post". My post was true and you know it. You're all fucking sheep. Linux is a fairly poor OS by todays standard, hahahahahahha. Live with it. Its poisioned by rhe mindset of the (fairly shitty) developers.

FUCK YOU ALL! I HOPE YOU ALL CHOKE ON YOUR OWN MANCHODE. DIE DIE DIE! you FILTHY dity hippies. You sick fucks. Unclean! unclean! take a shower you loser hippies. FUCK

Re:Its not flaimbait.. Plz dont on me

[Anonymous Coward]

your friend and you are morons.

if there is no internet connectivity and it is "secure" then it does not need any "patches"

only fucking morons think that you have to patch things because the patch exists...

if it is not connected to the net it is safe calm down and actually learn about computers and networking.

Re:Simple...

[Himring]

Also, cince those servers are on their own protected network any comments of "hax0r3d or own3d" are silly cince....

"cince" twice ... I would at least upgrade from notepad....

If you think THAT'S bad...

[DesScorp]

" Heck, forget certified, a lot of applications plain don't WORK under SP2."

...including Microsoft's own software. We use their Great Plains financial stuff, and SP2 kills it. Despite no mention in the Microsoft knowledge base about it, our MS/Great Plains consultant confirms the problem. We had to uninstall SP2 on the affected machines to get them working again.