When is Vista SP2 final release going to be released?

Anyone knows. I got the impression it was going to be in this month, but this month is almost over so?


When?

 

My sentiments exactly. Can't wait to slipstream it into my Vista SP1 USB key, and do some spring cleaning on my laptop.

 

I m too waiting for SP2 full ver.

 

I believe it's slated for release some time during Q2 of this year. Expect maybe May or June.

 

That long?

 

Hope it will be the best. Also when is WIndows 7 coming out?

 

yup.. when is W7 is coming out. if that does not cost me lots of buck..i wud love to upgrade myself to W7 from Vista than installing the SP2..

anyone having an idea how much it would cost to get W7..??

 

Wth? Vista sp2 still not out? Thats weird. I've tried the beta for like ages ago

 

Look at the prices of vista?

And ? not installing sp2 because you may one day install win7? how about installing sp2 and then install win7 when you have it?

everything else is just wierd.

 

mmm.. say if these two things come,say almost together..and i would want W7..then does it make any sense to install SP2 n then buy W7 n then install/upgrade VISTA..?

well,to be honest.. i m asking for opinions.. not making any statement..

 

well, as we all know that won't happen, the question is mood sp2 will be in 1, 2 months. win7 at earliest in midsummer, most likely towards the end of the year (christmas time, when everyone buys new systems).

even if it's just one month difference, it makes sense to install sp2. the added security and performance is worth it, even just for one month (even just for one day, actually. it's not like you lose anything ).

 

This is the leaked pricing for Windows 7

http://win7.in/2009/windows-7-pricing-leaked/

$319 for Ultimate compared to $500 for Vista Ultimate, souds pretty good to me, still steep, but hey it's Micro$oft.

 

i payed 180$ for ultimate? here in switzerland, oem's are legal to be used like full disks. they just don't have the nice packaging, that's all

 

I liked Win 7 demo. It has some cool features and I must say I will be getting rid of UAC. I would love to upgrade my PC to Win 7 rather than Vista.

 

I haven't heard much about Vista SP2. At least nothing that makes me want to rush out and download it as soon as it hits. Maybe Windows Search 4.0, but then I got it as a seperate download a while back.

 

We have that here in the US too. I bought a Vista Home Premium disk from amazon.com for $110.

 

it's a service pack; a collection of windows updates and fixes and such. you should just install it like anything else. when it comes, install it. nothing special anywhere.


to the guy above quoting he won't want to use uac. your thinking is wrong. better learn how good it is.

 

DX11 not enough?

 

Which was my point. SP2 looks to be a yawn, which is out of sync with past SPs.

Service packs have almost always had something special. Think back to SP1:

• They removed "Search" from the start menu
• They improved the file copy time estimates
• They changed the algorithm for file copies over the network
• You can now select drives in defrag

Think back to XP SP2. They added:

• Data Exection Prevention
• Windows Firewall
• Windows Security Center
• Bluetooth Support

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

Vista SP2 looks to be a minor upgrade at best.

Now for Server 2008, SP2 looks like interesting though.............

 

I wish they have removed UAC and unnecessary bootup files.

 

I installed Vista SP2 latest release candidate and it broke too many thing on my HDX. I will stay with SP1 for a while yet.

 

It would be nice if Service Pack 2 allows the multicore enhancements that Windows 7 has to enhance battery life.

 

it wouldn't if people bought vista.. now all the new stuff goes to win7..

Changes on SP2

there is stuff in sp2. I like the wlan-after-standby-fix. this is currently very annoying

yep, remove the biggest security advance and advantage vista has because some users are too dump to learn how good and effective it is.

and unnecessary bootup files, most are external drivers, not part of vista, that make booting slow. by removing card readers and such from my pc, i got vista down from 2.5min to <30sec. it's not microsoft's fault if the drivers suck.

 

It would be nice to get all the enhancements of win7 bare the terrible taskbar and the uac "fixes". but people hated vista and made it a non-seller. so we now have to pay for a new os that could've been a simple sp2, else..

(yes, i'm bitter )

 

Difficult if the card readers etc. are built into a laptop.
Any USB periphals - definitely booting wthout is better, but, if you boot with the periphals all the time, it'll be faster than without...

 

disable in the bios. i can do that in mine.

edit: that's just for testing purposes. then you can go to your vendors and cry around how their drivers suck

 

Hey genius, he doesn't mean opening the notebook and cutting them out.

 

Although Detlev knows that's exactly how I did it in the case of my PC Yeah, I was angry

 

I know.

About the BIOS Dave - well, some laptops have a, what people call "crippled" BIOS - and many devices cannot be deactivated - things like card readers.

But I suppose often new drivers should solve the problem too - in a way - at least they should...

 

it depends. sometimes hw needs firmware updates, too, as they have initialisation problems, or so. it can be difficult.

anyone want a free crappy card reader? mine lies around in the room waiting for a job