Given the way SP2 has been handled MS might make it rather difficult on those that don't upgrade.
SP2 has a tendency of "breaking" things, so a lot of sys admin are not installing it... MS doesn't like this and has been doing the "If you don't do what we say, we're not going to support the software you bought from us..."
Which right there is the difference, cause in there eyes you don't own the software you paid for, they do. You pay a licencing fee for permission to use it. So... if they want to change it they feel they have that right, after all, they own it, not you. I'd rather own my OS and have control over it, not have a monopoly corporation running my computer remotely...
Windows is a broken system, and to fix it will mean lots of reworking from the ground up, which means lots of stuff will get broken. That they are trying to fix this is good, but that they are forcing the fix on people at the expense of other vital software is very very bad.
