There *is* an auto-update "feature" built into XP, but there are quite a few people that are good little doobies and click "no" when they get a pop-up that says "would you like to update your computer." (I kid you not, it was a quote in a story in patching from the last few days) You can set it to do everything automagically, but I think they left that set off so that people wouldn't accuse them of being too nosy.
Personally I prefer to patch myself, so I can see what's going into my machine at my liesure, instead of, in the middle of doing something important.
They probably want to make their Windows Server 2003 customers feel better by making sure *their* SP comes first. Y'know, to make up for the "but it's secure out of the box!" gaffe.
Or maybe they are thinking about stuffing in the virus scanning "features" they've been rumoring about...
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There *is* an auto-update "feature" built into XP, but there are quite a few people that are good little doobies and click "no" when they get a pop-up that says "would you like to update your computer." (I kid you not, it was a quote in a story in patching from the last few days) You can set it to do everything automagically, but I think they left that set off so that people wouldn't accuse them of being too nosy.
Personally I prefer to patch myself, so I can see what's going into my machine at my liesure, instead of, in the middle of doing something important.
Then again, I also patch regularly too...
They probably want to make their Windows Server 2003 customers feel better by making sure *their* SP comes first. Y'know, to make up for the "but it's secure out of the box!" gaffe.
Or maybe they are thinking about stuffing in the virus scanning "features" they've been rumoring about...
Eh, it's just a service pack...