{"id":1261,"date":"2008-10-24T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/windows-vista-sp2-beta-announced.htm"},"modified":"2008-10-26T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T14:26:41","slug":"windows-vista-sp2-beta-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/windows-vista-sp2-beta-announced.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista (and Server 2008) SP2 beta announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftpdc.com\/\">Professional Developer&#8217;s Conference<\/a> should see lots of news from Microsoft around Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft&#8217;s cloud computing strategy but those who are looking for something that should be hear a a little sooner,<a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvistablog.com\/blogs\/windowsvista\/archive\/2008\/10\/24\/windows-vista-service-pack-2-beta.aspx\"> the Windows Vista team&#8217;s announcement that a beta of service pack 2 is just around the corner<\/a> will probabably be of interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/service-packs-feature-packs-and.htm\">As seems to be the norm these days, the service pack will include new functionality<\/a> (including Windows Search 4.0, native Blu-Ray support and updated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity options) but, even though some of these features are client-focused, it intended that a single service pack will apply to both client and server versions of Windows (quite how that works, only time will tell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/windowsserver\/archive\/2008\/10\/24\/windows-server-2008-service-pack-2-beta.aspx\">the Windows Server team is focusing on including the RTM version of Hyper-V and power improvements in SP2<\/a> &#8211; perhaps it will be a single service pack, but two different versions?).<\/p>\n<p>No news yet as to an intended release date for the final service pack &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s Mike Nash wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/windowsvistablog.com\/blogs\/windowsvista\/archive\/2008\/10\/24\/windows-vista-service-pack-2-beta.aspx\"><p>&#8220;The final release date for Windows Vista SP2 will be based on quality. 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