Windows 6 Service Pack 2
It’s out… it’s been in BETA for quite some time.
Just so you’re clear; Windows 6 covers all the Vista family and the Server 2008 family, and there’s an installer for 32-bit and one for 64-bit; there’s also a DVD image that you can install either from.
You can find a number of articles on the web telling you all about what was originally supposed to be in SP2, and what ended up in it… other than Bluetooth 2.1 and Blu-Ray support there isn’t that much that caught my eye as for “features”.
The big thing you will notice is that this makes Vista noticably faster… and includes the compcln.exe tool that allows you to remove previous component versions (saving disk space — of course once you do so, you cannot go back to previous versions… but if your machine is stable after SP2 you probably wouldn’t want to).
You must have SP1 installed first (Server 2008 comes with SP1 “pre-installed”).
You can access the Microsoft TechNet article via the link below and download the file(s) you desire. At the moment SP2 is not included in automatic updates, but it will likely be pushed out soon.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd262148.aspx
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