Just for fun, I went there to see what it would take to get a system running W2Kpro fully patched. It would appear that I'd need SP4 for W2K. Then, I'd have to download 250 separate "hotfixes" to go along with them. I could cut them to a disk I suppose, but that still leaves me with a lot of work ahead of me.
If one were an unlucky administrator of a Win-XP server, and I wanted to make a CD for patching systems, I'd need to download SP1 for Win-XP, then 499 patches! Jeez! I'd not realized how truely broken their patching process is.
I really feel sorry for poor bastards stuck on that treadmill.
Your numbers are way off, there's nowhere near that many patches needed post-SP4. My guess is you already knew that but as usual jumped at any chance to smear Microsoft, even with bogus information.
If one were an unlucky administrator of a Win-XP server...
Windows XP is not a server operating system. You probably knew that too.
I'd need to download SP1 for Win-XP, then 499 patches!
More bogus information, quite obviously. Microsoft is often deserving of criticism, but making up lies about them is just as bad as anything they've done to anyone.