News - Vista SP2 Beta available from tomorrow

[HEXUS]

Microsoft has announced that everyone can have a look at the Beta Vista service pack 2 from tomorrow.

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[Dreaming]

You'd have thought Microsoft would've got the hang of making operating systems by now, but the public availability of the second service pack produced for Vista...this year implies otherwise.

Bit harsh!

[Animus404]

I don't think Vista is as bad as people make out. Sure it had some growing pains, but then what OS doesn't?

[this_is_gav]

Rose tinted glasses.

[Agent]

Can this one be properly integrated via slipstreaming?

[Splash]

Can this one be properly integrated via slipstreaming?

According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../dd335036.aspx

SP2 also includes a Service Pack Clean-up tool (Compcln.exe) which helps restore the hard disk space by permanently deleting the previous versions of the files (RTM and SP1) that are being serviced by SP2. The Pack Clean up tool can also be run offline while creating slipstream images to reduce the size of the image.

Looks promising.

[Andeh13]

As was said above, iv been on vista 64 for 18months now and havn't looked back! Iv been happy with vista and hopefully sp2 will only make things better!

[Funkstar]

You'd have thought Microsoft would've got the hang of making operating systems by now, but the public availability of the second service pack produced for Vista...this year implies otherwise.

You'd have thought the linux community would know how to write an OS by now, they release a new kernel every other week and still they need to keep working on it! It must be rubbish!!!

[Brewster0101]

As was said above, iv been on vista 64 for 18months now and havn't looked back! Iv been happy with vista and hopefully sp2 will only make things better!

Diddo to this comment. Been using for 12 months and once installed I slimmed out the rubbish by reading forums and love it.

[Brewster0101]

You'd have thought the linux community would know how to write an OS by now, they release a new kernel every other week and still they need to keep working on it! It must be rubbish!!!

So how long till someone starts a linux vs windows fight in here!!!

Dam good point though!

[lodore]

So how long till someone starts a linux vs windows fight in here!!!

Dam good point though!

Then again vista did take 5 years to develop. it had to drop alot of features. first day experience was not good. it took around a year to release service pack 1 which fixed most of the issues.
so 6 years to make a stable OS?
does seem a rather long time.
luckily windows 7 even pre beta is very stable.

[Funkstar]

Then again vista did take 5 years to develop. it had to drop alot of features. first day experience was not good. it took around a year to release service pack 1 which fixed most of the issues.
so 6 years to make a stable OS?
does seem a rather long time.
luckily windows 7 even pre beta is very stable.

Or they could release a new OS every year with only incrimental changes and the same functional increase that a service pack gives you for nothing. People* would complain about that.


*Normal people, not Mac owners, obviously.

[lodore]

LOL very true
only real issue with vista really is the speed. still quite slow
of course it still has the issue that all windows os's have which is leftovers in the registry after uninstalling applications.

[Splash]

LOL very true
only real issue with vista really is the speed. still quite slow
of course it still has the issue that all windows os's have which is leftovers in the registry after uninstalling applications.

I'd say that's am issue with naughty uninstallers rather than the OS.

[finlay666]

As was said above, iv been on vista 64 for 18months now and havn't looked back! Iv been happy with vista and hopefully sp2 will only make things better!

I only stopped using it due to Abit's inability to properly sign a driver, other than that I enjoyed using it, going to switch back when my new wireless card gets delivered.

[dangel]

You'd have thought Microsoft would've got the hang of making operating systems by now, but the public availability of the second service pack produced for Vista...this year implies otherwise.

Tosh - and so the seven for NT 4 made that bad? And the three for XP? I'd rather expect more from Hexus!

Remember kids: patching things is bad - and not patching things is just as bad. In fact, you can't win.

I'm just glad every software release I do is utterly infalable, perfect and future proof.