content: They did have a few bad update patches with Win XP. They didn't churn out brick your computer updates every month until now. I personally always waited years for m$ to update products before getting them. I have a Win XP Pro install DVD that has SP1 by default. I did not touch that OS before then in any form. I know for a fact huge projects like an entire OS take years to iron out bugs for. This constant patch thing (with forced updates no less) is an absolute cluster fuck.