Yes, you can relax the security anyway you want, BUT the way it comes out of the box, locks your PC down much more heavily than some users would like / require. Yes of course we test things like SP2 before releasing to the core business, this is essential when you have an estate of 80,000 desktops, 10,000 laptops and 1000 tablet PC's, not to do so would be suicidal. Re the firewall, again yes you can turn it off, where I work, we MANDATE that a firewall is used on laptops that connect to the corporate network via a VPN, unfortunately out of the box SP2 kills VPN access (for our VPN anyway) this is down to closing IP ports that need to be opened. The point is how much hassle is this going to cause the average user?
), it's mainly to do with the default security settings, which are now much tighter, this effects things like pop up's (disabled), activeX controls, COM objects, Cookie acceptance, Firewall settings (now automatically on so can bu**er up your VPN usage if you use one) and a whole raft of other security clampdowns.
