"The package was released on August 6, but it will not appear immediately on www.windowsupdate.com. Turning on Automatic Updates is the best way to upgrade. Microsoft will use metered downloads to update users steadily without bogging down the entire Internet."
SP2 is dedicated to enhancing security in a variety of ways. Microsoft had originally planned for SP2 to turn on automatic updates by default to ensure that as many users as possible installed important patches. But this turned out to be illegal in some countries. Instead, users will be forced to choose "on" or "off" (see Figure 1 ) during installation (or, we assume, on first boot for machines that come with SP2 preinstalled).
Automatic updates currently install only critical patches for Windows; in SP2, they'll install both critical and security patches for Windows as well as some other Microsoft applications. If a download is interrupted, Windows Update will restart at the point where the interruption occurred. At shutdown, if updates have been downloaded but not installed, Windows will offer to install them and then shut down.…
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,1761,a=132722,00.asp
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