Comment Re:I say it's positive overall (Score 2, Informative) 471
Agreed. I look after around 40 people in a research lab and have being doing a slow rollout of SP2 on our windows boxes over the past few weeks.
All machines upgraded so far without a hitch. The (newish) firewall seems fair enough and it's actually quite nice when it pops up a window and tells you that something is trying to talk to the world. Downside? Some MS related programs (and Yahoo messeger to name but one) automatically open ports in the firewall.
Even installed a laptop from scratch with a slipstream install with no problems.
Personally, the only bad thing to me is the continual reminders about automatic updates being turned off. At least you can turn the reminder off I suppose.
I don't use IE (and advise people not to, under threat of upgrading their CPU with a hammer) so don't have any comments on that. We're all firefox people here.
Most of my problems come from people opening attachments and running unspecified 'bad' programs.
The Linux people? They're a dream.
All machines upgraded so far without a hitch. The (newish) firewall seems fair enough and it's actually quite nice when it pops up a window and tells you that something is trying to talk to the world. Downside? Some MS related programs (and Yahoo messeger to name but one) automatically open ports in the firewall.
Even installed a laptop from scratch with a slipstream install with no problems.
Personally, the only bad thing to me is the continual reminders about automatic updates being turned off. At least you can turn the reminder off I suppose.
I don't use IE (and advise people not to, under threat of upgrading their CPU with a hammer) so don't have any comments on that. We're all firefox people here.
Most of my problems come from people opening attachments and running unspecified 'bad' programs.
The Linux people? They're a dream.
