Windows XP Service Pack 2 is Microsoft’s biggest, most expensive patch in history. The company has attached to the package of necessary security upgrades some largely unnecessary efforts to get you to use more Microsoft stuff, like Internet Explorer. University CISOs were sent into a tizzy, some blocking the download and installation of the patch for fear the problems it created wold overwhelm campus IT services. Microsoft’s message to schools was the same as to everyone else: Here, take it. It’s taking advantage of a captive audience.”]
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