The tally is in: Just two months after Windows XP Service Pack 2 was publicly distributed, users worldwide have downloaded in excess of 106 million copies of the update. According to Microsoft, approximately 90 million copies were downloaded via Automatic update, Windows Update and Microsoft"s Download Center; another 16 million copies were distributed on compact discs.
According to Microsoft, the 106 million distributions mainly encompasses consumers and small business customers. A company spokesperson could not quantify the number of enterprises that have deployed the update, but claimed that customers were reporting "good results."