Tag: SP2

It's December 5, 2008 and - as promised - Microsoft has made the Vista SP2 beta publicly available. Early adopters can install it now and take advantage of improvements like 10% better power saving, reduced resource consumption in sidebar gadgets, Windows Search 4, and a long list of security and bug fixes. According to Wired's post, you should be aware that you'll have to uninstall the beta in ...

While most people probably don't care what Microsoft does to patch or improve Windows Vista any more, Service Pack 2 is now available to Technet and MSDN subscribers and is slated for public release on December 4th. Could SP2 actually take care of some of the irritations that have plagued other Vista users? Perhaps more importantly, does anyone really care? Vista has been taking such a beating in ...

It looks like the rumors were true. Microsoft is hoping to roll out Windows Vista SP2 before Windows 7 is publicly available. How soon? We don't know for sure. But the company is delivering the first beta version of Vista SP2 to a handful of Technology Adoption Program customers on Wednesday, October 29th. Depending on how things go, we could see the beta or a final version rolled out within a ...

Windows 7 may be grabbing all the headlines these days, but that doesn't mean Microsoft has forgotten about Windows Vista. ZDNet reports that while Windows 7 is due out next year, Microsoft plans to release at least one major update for Windows Vista before launching Windows 7. In fact, a beta version of Windows Vista SP2 may already be in the hands of some Microsoft partners. Microsoft also ...

Microsoft has officially stopped supporting Windows XP SP1 as of yesterday. That means that users who want to continue to get security updates will need to install Service Pack 2 for XP, or say goodbye to security updates and stick with SP1. It isn't a huge deal either way, and we expected this right about now, since it has been two years since the release date. Service Pack 2 isn't generally a ...