OK. I'm on my fourth round of updates at windowsupdate.microsoft.com. I know that I need Service Pack 2. It's the first thing I tried to download. There are 50 reminders of it on their site, but do you think I can get it? No. At least not yet. I've probably loaded 100 or so updates, and I've clicked every "Get Service Pack 2" link under the sun, but they all send me back to the 'automatic' update page for another round of Service Pack 1 updates. Right. We've de-supported your release, and you really need to upgrade to the current release, but we won't let you.
These are some of my biggest pet peeves about Microsoft--1) They insist on doing all of your thinking for you, and 2) They won't just give you a full setup--you can't just go get the "latest build" and download everything you need in one shot. And why does it take so long to download these updates? Is it the mass of data that I'm uploading as well? I'm monitoring my upload/download stats. I'm uploading about 60% as much data as I'm downloading. Now that's spyware.
--Og
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