I still have not figured out what has changed since last night after reading the last 25 or 30 pages for the second time. At about page 124 people started "counting down" I read the MS announcement that was new, but that's about all that I've read that was new since Friday.
If sex would be involved in this thread, It would make Guinness book of world records for biggest online orgy
It was never that bad smart people used to extract the install files to hard drive. I myself with Windows 98 had a hard drive i used to plug into machines with 98 CD extracted to it. All you need is this and 1 floppy with DOS on. You start the setup from the extra hard drive via dos. It was only the first ever time you needed to use all floppys (just so you could extract it all to a hard drive) People still do this today using external Hard drives and Windows 8 (never sure why as a bootable USB install is super quick anyway but apparently extracting a Windows 8 DVD to hard drive then installing from that is quicker.. Can't see how personally.)
I find it hilarious that Microsoft is taking leaks seriously now and starting with an update that's free to most people.