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."

Comments

Re:Why not linux? I'll tell you why

[nkh]

because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".

I know you're a troll but don't you think Microsoft could learn something from Mac OS X design: NO install, just drag and drop the "application" (which has a hidden folder with all the resources necessary) and launch the program! No need to double click icons for installation anymore.

Upgrading to sp2 should be easy:

[Qbertino]

I'd just do this:

apt-get install sp2
or
apt-get update sp2 ...
Oh, wait.
Wrong OS.
Sorry.
Forget about it.

Re:Why not linux? I'll tell you why

[ErroneousBee]

We have Windows Admins at our site like you. They are so used to one particular way of doing things, I.e. installing off the CD, typing in product keys, setting up firewalls and anti virus, etc that they assume thats the way things work on Linux. They also suffer from an inexplicable blindspot, thinking fedora must be the easiest to use cos its got the biggest market share.

On my home mandrake system, I just type 'urpmi apache2' to install apache2. For fedora there is up2date (I assume its similar).

I find that Linux either makes it unbeleivably easy to install and use things (E.g. Mandrake install, KDE, urpmi), or mindbogglingly difficult (E.g. getting a modem working, installing UT2004 off the CD).

Once you have a bit of experience with both OSes you will be able to appreciate the strenghts and weaknesses of both.