In the beginning, 1. Microsoft pleaded with us to turn on Windows Update. 2. Microsoft uploaded a link for anyone to order SP2 CD, only to take it down hours later. Then came IBM decision to not implement SP2. Now Microsoft is offering us a way to Temporarily Disable Delivery of Windows XP SP2 through Windows Update and Automatic Updates I wonder what's really going on with Microsoft in Redmond? i_XpUser

I understood that the temporary disable method was aimed at people/businesses running networks that didn't want to distribute SP2 to everybody on the network without testing it in their SOE. It only delays the update for 120 days from August 16. Also imagine 50 or more computers starting to download SP2 at the same time over the same internet connection. I would hope larger orgs would be using SUS server though. Having said that I wonder if even Microsoft knows whats going on in Microsoft. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference." Frost

It only delays the update for 120 days from August 16. Why the 120 days from August 16? What's Microsoft thinking? Will your XP implode if you don't bother applying SP2? i_XpUser

It is one thing to possible disrupt a home user's computer after installing SP2, but altogether different, if it were to bring down a large company network. $$$$$$$$ With SP2 issues still remain.

DocMemory and mikeo both make good points. As far as: Then came IBM decision to not implement SP2. That's not relevant in any case, since MS has no control over decisions made by IBM.

Docmemory hit it on the head. No business of any size will apply anything as mission critical as major upgrades to the PC operating system platform without a full acceptance test. Borderrose