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Windows Vista SP2 will be available before Windows 7
by Brad Linder Oct 16th 2008 at 11:00AM
In fact, a beta version of Windows Vista SP2 may already be in the hands of some Microsoft partners. Microsoft also plans to release a service pack called SP2 for Windows Server 2008 before Windows 7 drops. If you're feeling like you must have missed something, no there was never an SP1 for Windows Server 2008. But since the OS is built on Windows Vista SP1, the first service pack will get the SP2 treatment. Not that I have any problems with the way Microsoft names things...
There's no real information at the moment about what actual changes we'll see in the service packs. In related news, the first public beta of Windows 7 could be available as soon as mid-December.
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Phawx said 12:16PM on 10-16-2008
With my new computer, it came pre-loaded with Vista, but I downgraded to XP.
Between SP2 for Vista and that Norton utility to prevent the POP-up from coming whenever you wish to make changes to your system, I might take the plunge.
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Peter said 1:33PM on 10-16-2008
Unless you're constantly tinkering with your machine, UAC isn't half as bad as people make it out to be. I just upgraded my XP box to Vista last weekend. Of course I got bombarded with UAC prompts during the initial installs of all my apps and the system tweaking, but during normal use, I never see them.
casey said 6:09PM on 10-16-2008
I feel that the whole Windows 7 movement is a marketing tactic to rid bad publicity of Vista: it is much easier to forget about Vista if the public has a new Windows to talk of.
Pretty UI aside, I do remember XP not running as well and stable as 2000, and personally stayed away from XP until SP2 due to stability, compatibilities, etc. So I do not seriously see the incompatibility complaints against Vista as logical. Of course I remember Vista having issues and surely recall the beta offering broader compatibility and stability than the RTM, but this is nothing new with any Windows release.
With the release of 7 bringing incompatibilities and stability issues, I see Vista becoming more appreciated for what it is (unlike ME, once hated, always hated) as XP is now.
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Ridgecity said 10:24PM on 10-16-2008
do you actually believe that? remember SP3 for XP?
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Aalaap said 7:54AM on 10-17-2008
That is the lamest screenshot I have ever seen! LOL!
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onlinealias said 7:36AM on 10-18-2008
Maybe Microsoft should get Vista right before they create another OS.
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Kyle said 2:41PM on 11-05-2008
well when I reinstalled xp on my p4 last year..... it was only xp not sp1, sp2 sp3 or sp4
it tried to use the internet though the fire wire....... infact dell game me bad drivers for the "microsoft ethernet card" that I had to use my other PC to manually install them with a jump drive.
so yeah XP was just as bad as vista when it first came out.
So far all of the programs I used on my P4 run on vista imac just fine.
I really don't think this is a good move on microsoft's behaf because I have seen windos 7 and it looks like rip from the Mac OS, not that Mac OS is not cool but I liked windows because it was DIFFERENT.
though I did think it was sort of dumb that Dx 10 is only on vista.....dumb move.
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zahi said 7:25AM on 12-04-2008
will Usb 3.0 is supported
http://www.zahipedia.com/2008/12/03/windows-vista-sp2-microsoft-back-
with-a-bang/
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