Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC

This week we are announcing that Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has hit an important milestone in development: Release Candidate (RC). 

Starting today, the RC of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release. In the very near future, we will be making the RC broadly available for anyone to download and test. You can expect another blog post from me when that happens.

SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging standards. As we’ve described since we first talked about SP2, we’ve taken your feedback into account when developing SP2. Specifically, we expect SP2 to continue the security benefits of both products and simplify deployment for our customers.

For an outline of changes in SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, check out the notable changes document.

We are planning to release SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in the second quarter of 2009.

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  1. dovella
    Posted on: February 25, 2009 at 2:42PM  

    Brandon is Italian Inclused?

  2. beqiraj.net
    Posted on: February 25, 2009 at 4:21PM  

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  3. lollht
    Posted on: February 25, 2009 at 5:43PM  

    Who cares about Vista?  It's the Gummo Marx to Win 7's Groucho.

  4. happyandyk
    Posted on: February 25, 2009 at 9:26PM  

    Good to read some Vista news amongst all the Win7 noise :) Thanks.

  5. ctitanic
    MVPForum
    Posted on: February 26, 2009 at 6:38AM  

    The sad reality is that nobody cares. Vista will join ME in the list of undesired Microsoft OS versions. The market is devided at this moment in two groups. Those who switched back to XP from Vista and those who still have Vista installed but are waiting for W7.

  6. ajl
    Posted on: February 26, 2009 at 2:24PM  

    I have VIsta on 2 machines and have had nothing but trouble.  When will Windows7 be available to the public?  

  7. Jan_Tiedemann
    Posted on: February 26, 2009 at 2:56PM  

    After installing SP2 RC the security center reports that my installed avira virus scanner is not started. In fact this was not true.

  8. 7flavor
    Posted on: February 27, 2009 at 7:54AM  

    Lots of Vista technologies were backported to XP..likewise are there any Windows 7 technologies being backported to Vista? Does Service Pack 2 include any such techs? DirectX 11?

  9. webDev_Indy
    Posted on: February 27, 2009 at 10:31AM  

    One step closer to public release. Yippee!

  10. lvken7
    Posted on: March 04, 2009 at 8:43AM  

    Where do I go to get help with Vista?

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