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Nope, it's true. That's exactly what Microsoft will do. It's making alot of people too. Microsoft themselves states that Service Packs will not include new "features" just fixes and security updates. Now they are breaking their word...again. They SHOULD release these changes in a seperate "Feature Pack" instead of the SERVICE pack. Now they are subtly changing a product that some people were quite happy to buy as it was and they have no choice but to integrate these features! Thanks Micro$ft!
So I guess they are integrating Critical Update Notification that has been available from MS Windows Update almost since the release of Windows 2000? Of course the site doesn't mention that it's been available...and that any Network Admin worth anything wouldn't put it to use on their network. Woohoo! Let's patch all of our network machines on a weekly schedule using the latest updates from Microsoft! Excellent Idea! /sarcasm
Hopefully Microsoft doesn't leave this enable by default as they do with XP....hopefully I can turn it off BEFORE installing SP3. Sigh.
dude, that Automatic update thing is completly differen't to critical update notification. It is exactly the same as the WinXP version. It searches for updates then downloads them. And it can be easily turned off using the new Automatic Update icon in the control pannel. And any half decent network admin would make one install of Win2k, setup it up, and ghost it onto all the other computers.