2+ gigs of just updates???
Heaven help any poor sucker like me who's stuck with dialup!
And how about people who are capped by their broadband ISPs every month to even a few hundred megabytes? They're busted, right out of the gate.
Seriously, though, 2.5 gigs of patches on day one or two isn't even funny. That's just sick, and very, very sad. M$ is selling a boxed beta, and they know it.