p2pnet.net News:- Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

That`s the page head on a Microsoft site. And it`s indicative of major problems Microsoft is suffering only two weeks before XP SP2 automatically rolls out.

Fewer than a quarter of businesses have decided to install it, says Canada`s AssetMetrix Research Labs.

In a study into the level of SP2 penetration in the IT environments of 251 North American corporations, only 24% of Windows XP PCs surveyed had upgraded to SP2, it says.

To date, we have observed that 40% of companies using Windows XP have actively avoided upgrading to SP2, and only 7% have actively accepted it, says managing director Steve O`Halloran.

The other 52% of the companies showed no direction or policy towards SP2, and may find themselves having support issues by allowing multiple editions of Windows XP to exist in their infrastructure.

Update Policy Manager is being launched as the market prepares for April 12, the date

Microsoft says its Automatic Update service will start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), as much as a 266Mb upgrade, to Windows XP-based PCs on April 12.

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AssetMetrix Research Labs - Windows XP SP2 deployed on less than 25% of corporate XP PCs, April 4, 2005

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