Re:One thing I don't really get... (Score 1)

There *is* an auto-update "feature" built into XP, but there are quite a few people that are good little doobies and click "no" when they get a pop-up that says "would you like to update your computer." (I kid you not, it was a quote in a story in patching from the last few days) You can set it to do everything automagically, but I think they left that set off so that people wouldn't accuse them of being too nosy.

Personally I prefer to patch myself, so I can see what's going into my machine at my liesure, instead of, in the middle of doing something important.

Then again, I also patch regularly too...