Can confirm, if they're MS machines in a domain with active directory this is free and simple.

That is an excellent answer, thank you.

OK, so this seems like a good idea - but what can we do with it? Having that kind of speed is great, but only if you have infrastructure that can serve you data that fast. We're a long way from anywhere and have only a limited amount of fibre connections to other countries (where I imagine most data will come from), this is reflected in the silly high prices we pay for data already.

So whilst it's great that we will have these kinds of speeds, how are we going to get data services fast enough to take advantage of them?

Please, learn to spell Aussie before telling us how we should pronounce things. Oh, and if anyone was pronouncing 'Cab Sav' as 'kepsev' it's most likely you were in South Africa, rather than Australia.
We make some of the worlds best red wines, we are quite comfortable with our pronunciation.

Totally agree, I know this is /. and we hate windows - but it's similar to the way WSUS works - and since the introduction of WSUS I haven't given this question a second thought. You can set up different boxes to get updates on different schedules so the pilot boxes always get them first, then production boxes over a few days in a rolling pattern.

So I know this is slashdot, but mine is XP, I love it and I don't want to change it. I don't want to change desktop environments ever. Desktops should be invisible. I don't care about desktop environments - I care about apps, inermanets and documents. XP does everything I want, I know where everything is, I know how it works and my apps run perfectly (yes, perfectly) on top. So I'm changing... why?