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[nonelvis]

I have just finished installing Parallels Desktop and Windows XP on my Mac. I can't even begin to express how weird it is to be typing in iChat or Safari while seeing the XP interface lurking in a window below.

On the other hand, once I got the right version of Parallels installed, Windows installed easily, and Windows Update is merrily chugging away in the background downloading ... something. PC folks: do I want SP3, or will it make me hate life? Pretty much all I need to do with Windows is look at web pages I am building, so as long as my version of Windows is running the correct security updates, I think I'm all set.

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[nonelvis]

Unless I've heard otherwise, I always install my Mac and Windows updates, because inevitably (especially with Windows), there are necessary security fixes. Windows Update seemed a lot more complicated than Software Update, but maybe I'm just not used to it yet.

For the most part, I only care about whether someone can crack into my machine if I leave it unpatched. I need to do so little under Windows that there's just not all that much that could break if I take the wrong system update.