Vista SP2 release candidate goes closed beta
Testing times
Friday, 20 February 2009, 12:54
MICROSOFT HAS SEEDED the Release Candidate build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows server 2008 to select testers today.
The public beta is not yet released and Microsoft is, as usual, suggesting that normal users might want to wait until the final release before running the unfinished and as-yet unproven update.
Ars Technica has the full skinny here.
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Is this Windows 7 u are referring to here? :D
Its pitty that SPs have become luxury from necessity/security. News that MS will release it after Windows-7 to save bread n butter, shows this sinister trend MS has caught from ATI/NVIDIA. Their definition of drivers is not something like some engineering code to drive hardware logically ... but their definition is like ... Oh nvidia released HF2 with 2 frames more, this new driver of ours is to improve performance in that game, that game and this game, oh ATI increased 1 frame with new driver, our upcoming driver will be to improve performance in this game. They have tarnished the definition of "driver" and MS has caught this plague.
// Its pitty that SPs have become luxury
// from necessity/security. i . /i
In a perfect world, SPs would NOT be necessary, just luxury items with extra stuff. The programs would just work the first release.
I have SP2 on Server 2008 Enterprise I installed like a month ago. It was a 605 MB download. And I'm not a "selected" user.
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