Re: Need SP2 Options

Lee;
Note this line:
"But in response to customer complaints, Microsoft suspended the automatic
deployment for eight months to give users time to prepare for the upgrade."
That is a direct reference to the tool I have already referred.
Did you read about the tool?
You keep posting the same long reference most being irrelevant such as % of
computers deploying SP-2.
Of course bad journalism has paraphrased and left off the critical facts.

However in a few day the deadline will come and go.
Very possibly you will state something such as "Microsoft blew it again,
they can't even force SP-2 installed as they wanted"
I will not notice anything because everything will continue as normal with
no updates including SP-2 installed without user/owner wanting them.

What are you going to do to keep SP-2 off your computer?

And as for your comment "Unsolicited.", you asked for any and all comments
when you posted here in this public newsgroup.

--
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"lee" <loneweasel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112980116.190746.279880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The Lone Weasel responded:
>
> begin excerpts
>
> Push Is Coming to Shove for XP SP2 Deployment
>
> April 6, 2005
>
> By John Pallatto
>
> Affecting all the XP users who have been avoiding or procrastinating
> about installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2 upgrade, Microsoft is
> about to make the decision for them.
>
> On April 12, Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to turn on its Automatic
> Update service, which will deploy the XP Service Pack 2 to all PCs
> connected to the Internet regardless of whether corporate IT
> departments
> or individual PC users have prepared for it.
>
> SP2, developed to fix critical security holes and deploy performance
> enhancements, was originally released in September 2004. But in
> response
> to customer complaints, Microsoft suspended the automatic deployment
> for
> eight months to give users time to prepare for the upgrade.
>
> With the upgrade deadline looming, one study shows that the vast
> majority of companies running XP have actively avoided the upgrade or
> simply ignored the problem.
>
> The study, by AssetMetrix Research Labs of Ottawa, Canada, showed that
> only 24 percent of Windows XP PCs have been upgraded to SP2.
>
> "This whole thing reminds of the those days back in college when you
> asked for a two-week extension on the due date for a midterm paper,"
> said Steve O'Halloran, managing director of AssetMetrix Research Labs.
> "But the weekend before the paper is finally due, you still haven't
> done
> any work," he said.
>
> The AssetMetrix study of 136,000 PCs at 251 North American corporations
> showed that only 7 percent of the companies studied have actively
> accepted and deployed the upgrade.
>
> Of the remainder, 52 percent hadn't established any policy or plans for
> the SP2 upgrade, and 40 percent were actively avoiding it.
>
> ...
>
> "I can see why people would be frightened about system upgrades coming
> down o their machine unsolicited," he said. This may be why some
> organizations have been "delaying the inevitable," he said.
>
> ...
>
> Check out eWEEK.com's Windows Center for Microsoft and Windows news,
> views and analysis.
>
> Copyright (c) 2005 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>
> end excerpts
>
> Listen carefully - I'm telling you just one more time...
>
> "Unsolicited."
>
> Noel Paton wrote:
>> Listen very carefully - I will say this only once.......
>>
>> You will NOT be forced to install SP2 if you don't want to - There
> never
>> have been plans for any such action, and there never will be.
>>
>> If YOU choose to install it - or your system admin makes the choice
> for
>> you - then you will get it -otherwise you will not have SP2 installed
> -
>> ever!
>>
>> If YOU choose not to use IE for anything, then you can still download
> the
>> SP2 update using whatever browser you want, simply by using a
> download
>> manager and going to the download center and getting the full 272MB
> download
>> from there.
>>
>> http://www.flashgot.net/whats
>> Is a FireFox extension that allows many download managers to work
> properly
>>
>> FWIW, I had no problems ordering the CD using FireFox - on default
>> settings - except for a couple of pop-ups asking me to verify
> microsoft.com
>> subsites as trusted for the session
>>
>>
>> I suggest that you rein in on the BS and stick to the facts - thye'll
> serve
>> both you and everyone better!.
>>
>> --
>> Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)
>>
>> Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
>> http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
>>
>> Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to
> NG's
>>
>> "lee" <loneweasel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1112898471.100646.17300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > Jesse wrote:
>> >> Well for one thing, why dont you just use IE for a few minutes
> while
>> > you
>> >> request the CD?
>> >
>> > I decide which browser I use.
>> >
>> >> Also, if that does not work take your computer to a friends
>> >> house who has a High Speed connection.
>> >
>> > No.
>> >
>> >> It just sounds to me that you have a
>> >> case of the "I hate Microsoft".
>> >
>> > I'm tired of Microsloth.
>> >
>> >> There is nothing wrong with IE.
>> >
>> > Why is it that hackers can attack me through Internet Exploder even
> if
>> > I never use it? Why can't I just uninstall the piece of junk and
>> > remove the threat of being hacked through software I never use?
>> >
>> > Answer me that.
>> >
>> >> Now that
>> >> alot of people are using Firefox there are ALOT of new security
> holes
>> > being
>> >> found with Firefox.
>> >
>> > Not that many, and Firefox fixed them promptly.
>> >
>> >> So... I reccomend IE because Microsoft patches it ALL
>> >> the time,
>> >
>> > Because if they didn't constantly patch it hackers would own your
>> > computer.
>> >
>> >> and it is imbedded in the OS which makes it ten times more
>> >> efficient.
>> >
>> > Also means whenever IE's hacked, the hackers have control of your
>> > system.
>> >
>> > Just like this enforced SP2 update, enforced storage of Exploder is
> a
>> > needless security risk, and a poor excuse for a web browser.
>> >
>> > [begin excerpt]
>> >
>> > Push Is Coming to Shove for XP SP2 Deployment
>> > By John Pallatto
>> > April 6, 2005
>> >
>> > Affecting all the XP users who have been avoiding or
> procrastinating
>> > about installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2 upgrade, Microsoft
> is
>> > about to make the decision for them.
>> >
>> > On April 12, Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to turn on its Automatic
>> > Update service, which will deploy the XP Service Pack 2 to all PCs
>> > connected to the Internet regardless of whether corporate IT
>> > departments or individual PC users have prepared for it.
>> >
>> > [end excerpt]
>> >
>


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