Push Microsoft for W2K security, Gartner says

HERE IN DUBLIN, not too many miles away from the forbidden zone – Intel’s Leixlip fab – Annette Jump, a senior analyst at Gartner ha delivered a presentation on what corporations and system builders should do given the current confusion over Windows clients.
Jump didn't say this but the Gartner graph of Microsoft support certainly suggests that if you're confused as a corporation or an end user, it's not really your fault at all.

Jump said that corporations and other Windows users should push Microsoft to introduce similar features in XP SP2 to reassure corporations deploying Windows 2000 and wondering which step to take.

She said that with an increased focus on security, Microsoft was forced to release Windows XP SP2, which is not a typical service pack. Sixty per cent of it is security, 20 per cent are fixes, and 20 per cent are functional additions, said Jump. But there are some problems with SP2 – it crashes some of the applications. She said that Gartner believed only three per cent of shrink wrapped applications will be broken by SP2, and five per cent of custom written apps.