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1. Comment - Businesses Slow to Adopt XP SP2

   (Apr 4, 2005 - 7:09 PM)

   In my opinion, I believe companies have put off upgrading to SP2 to allow for any problems to surface, which also allows for fixes to be published. If you're smart, you don't want to be the person who find and publishes a fix on some website. You want to be the person that can search Google to find the fix. This process has worked very well for me. Always wait a few months before installing any SP or initial release software from Microsoft. I would say follow this advice for all software companies but most companies aren't timely with their updates (and sometimes you have to pay $$$). But after that period you would be foolish to never install. All future updates will work best if you have the most current version. And all vendors base their future products on the latest Microsoft SP patch. You will be fine for a year, maybe two, but eventually newly purchased software will have problems because it was expecting SP2 and you only have SP1.
   
   I like and trust Microsoft based on my life time experience in using their products and their patches, and when compared to how other companies update their products (if ever). Within an inherently unsecure IT world - the only safe computer is the powered off computer - I like their stream-lined process for downloading and installing updates. No software product is bug free. Look at how many problems came up with Firefox. Yikes! I feel more secure using IE. Bugs in Firefox will never be discovered as quickly as bugs in IE because fewer people are using it. Hackers certainly won't make the world aware of a bug in Firefox. Mostly, security type companies discover the bugs (with a few notable exceptions). And if few people are using Firefox not as many companies will be checking it for bugs.
   
   To sum up, always wait a few months (3-9) before getting any initial release software or SP patch to allow bugs to be found and fixes. But after that period be sure to get the latest, otherwise you will eventually experience problems. This philosophy actually holds true with any platform.
   
   Hope this helps.
   
   Software Consultant.