Hurry up and wait: Most XP Home users still waiting on SP2
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
As expected, Windows XP Home Edition users started getting the drizzle download of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) through Automatic Updates on Wednesday, but many readers are reporting incredibly slow-moving or even apparently non-existent downloads. Don't get too excited about receiving SP2 quickly through Automatic Updates, Microsoft warns. At a whopping 30 MB to 80 MB per download, and tens of millions of XP Home customers to satisfy, it's going to take weeks before many of them complete the download and start the install. And then there's XP Professional: Those users will have access to SP2 starting next Wednesday, but again, it will happen over a long time period, and there are many more XP Pro users than there are XP Home users.