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Title: vista sp2
Post by: morfiend on May 26, 2009, 04:00:00 PM

Was released today!

Title: Re: vista sp2
Post by: morfiend on May 26, 2009, 05:09:45 PM

Sry Roy,wasnt sure where to put it!

Title: Re: vista sp2
Post by: AirFlyer on May 26, 2009, 05:17:07 PM

Does it do anything useful? Win7 is soon out anyways.

Title: Re: vista sp2
Post by: llama on May 26, 2009, 09:56:19 PM

Quote from: AirFlyer on May 26, 2009, 05:17:07 PM

Does it do anything useful? Win7 is soon out anyways.

Mostly bug fixes (nearly 700 of them!), and a few trivial new features most people won't care about, such as:

- native Blu-Ray disc burning
- Bluetooth 2.1, which supports a better pairing system
- WiFi works correctly after Sleep and Resume
- Windows Search 4.0 (a Google Desktop Search-like program. It's been available as a separate download for Vista and XP since last June)

I was just paid a few thousand dollars to write an 8-page feature about SP2. Let me tell you, it should only have been 5 pages at the most, or a very tight 3 pages. How I eked out 5600 words is really beyond me. On the other hand, it's shameless padding like this that let's me afford to go to The Con. ;-)

SP2 is really just a maintenance update - a way to package hundreds of hotfixes at once. If you're looking for new features, then you're looking for a new version of Windows, which in this case is Windows 7.

-Llama

Title: Re: vista sp2
Post by: AirFlyer on May 26, 2009, 10:24:52 PM

About what I expected. I sort of floated over Vista anyways in the OS upgrade, but it's always good to try and keep tabs on things.