Re: 24% of companies have deployed SP2

From: Peter ("Peter")
Date: 04/07/05 

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 16:48:52 -0400

Unfortunately the people often making those decisions in the Corporate
environment aren't very qualified in the field of computing. Like many
people they read only the negative and forget the positive aspects of
keeping an OS up to date. 

-- 
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsystems.c*o*m> wrote in message 
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> "Treeman" <Treeman.1n4pps@pcbanter.net> wrote in message 
> news:Treeman.1n4pps@pcbanter.net...
>>
>> THREE QUARTERS OF BUSINESSES SHUN SP2 UPDATE.
>> Less than a quarter of businesses in North America have installed
>> Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) according to a new study April 05, 2005
>> by AssetMetrix Labs.
>> 'SC Magazine ' (http://tinyurl.com/6av5r)
>> Treeman
>>
>
>
> Probably one of the reasons so many worms are still propagating around the 
> net. Why would you not apply security updates for an OS? Including Linux, 
> Unix, Mac etc. They all have security/bug fixes that should be applied 
> from time to time and they all may break existing applications when the 
> fixes are applied. Computers are not at the appliance level of operation 
> yet. A bit of knowledge and user interaction is required to keep then 
> running smoothly.
>
> Kerry
>
>