Windows XP SP2 Grace Period Expires

“The April 12, 2005 deadline passed Tuesday and Microsoft has followed through with its pledge to revoke the grace period that provided enterprise customers the option to postpone the adoption of Windows XP Service Pack 2. The update, which fortifies Windows with a variety of new security enhancements, will now be pushed to customers and has become a requirement to receive future upgrades.”

Goodie. As some may remember, when SP2 was first launched, it worked on only 90% of computers smoothly. That’s not a high number, really. It will be nice to see how this affects these enterprises. Check out the full read at BetaNews.