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March 4th, 2009

Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:01 am

Categories: Service Pack, Vista, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows client, Windows server

Tags: Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Release Candidate, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Mary Jo Foley

As Microsoft officials promised, the company has released this week to the general public the near-final Release Candidate test bits for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Server 2008 SP2.

The SP2 RC bits can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Download Center.

As Neowin notes, the Microsoft Web page still says the new bits are the beta bits. But they are actually the RC ones.

The final SP2 builds are widely expected to be out in April 2009.

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RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public
Out of fear of bugs I generally wait until RTMs and essentially until Microsoft decides to do the update as part of its regular "Tuesday Update" schedule, BUT if anyone sees where SP2 has any noticeab... (Read the rest)
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Performance?  Orif Turaboyev | 03/04/09
No performance related issues  honeymonster | 03/04/09
I agree.....  daMan25 | 03/04/09
Yea  gnesterenko | 03/04/09
Same  AzuMao | 03/04/09
A Lot  Richard Turpin | 03/04/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  Daiv_Skinner | 03/04/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  tpatric99 | 03/04/09
Yes  gnesterenko | 03/04/09
Yes  Richard Turpin | 03/04/09
Sounds like i may have to deploy this to all my tablets.  Been_Done_Before | 03/04/09
RC to final... over top or uninstall first?  RDrr | 03/04/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  Migration Expert Zone | 03/04/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  ProfQuill | 03/04/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  Disgruntled M$ User | 03/05/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  rwoodard71@... | 03/05/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  Crabby Guy | 03/05/09
RE: Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public  Jeff Hayes | 03/06/09

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