woo....no wonder recently my internet a bit slow becoz dl the updates.....the updates really do make my computer more stable nowaday.....

When is the official sp2 gonna be released?

Microsoft is doing their best to rush out Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista so there will be additional incentive for folks to upgrade to Window Vista now, instead of waiting for Windows 7. So the latest schedule should come as no surprise.

A confidential source has revealed that Microsoft will deliver a Release Candidate in February, 2009 with the final SP2 binary scheduled for RTM (Release To Manufacturing) in April, 2009.

As always, do remember that when Microsoft announces that a product is RTM, it doesn't mean you will be able to download it right away. RTM merely means it is "released to manufacturing", including OEMs. Actual public release will be sometime later. Release to web (RTW) will also occur sometime after RTM.

:: Windows Vista SP2 RC (Release Candidate)
:: February, 2009

:: Windows Vista SP2 RTM (Release To Manufacturing)
:: April, 2009

:: Windows Vista SP2 RTW (Release To Web )
:: TBA

As Microsoft has done in previous Service Pack releases (Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3), they will be releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 2 in language waves. If Microsoft follows the original language wave schedule in Vista SP1, then the first wave would support English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish. The second wave would support Chinese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.


What Is Service Pack 2?

Service Pack 2 is a single service pack which will update both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 products. In addition to previously released updates, it will include support for new types of hardware and several emerging standards.


What's New In Windows Vista SP2?

What's New In Windows Server 2008 SP2?


This post has been edited by cybpsych: Dec 12 2008, 10:04 PM

working fine for me and better than b4

Your computer wouldn't automatically download SP2 update for you. It's optional download.

So is it advisable to download the beta if i'm on sp1 now?

Well, I'm using it and am not having any problems whatsoever.

Then if da official sp2 is out what should i do if i'm on the beta version?uninstall it?

Yes, you must uninstall if your on BETA and updating to official.

must try after reading all the comments

just wait for the final SP2 to be released, else if you have SP2 Beta installed, it'll be difficult to remove later.

Bro, can't quite agree because, all you need to do is use "Add/Remove Programs".

of course it's just a simple add/remove affair ...

however MS' service packs are traditionally and notoriously big & complicated/complex .. god knows how many hundreds/thousands of files being changed and lines of registry being modified ...

sometimes, they even screwed up their monthly hotfix (which is just a few meg). what are the chances that a big OS SP don't screwed up somewhere? It happened to XP's SP2/SP3 before

anyway, just a precaution, no big deal. cheers!