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Windows Vista SP2: Mid-Life Crisis Management
Published 10/26/2008 by nospam@cmp.com (Dave Methvin) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Poor Vista. Interest in Windows 7 and the new Windows Strata "cloud OS" has left the current version of Windows getting little attention. Microsoft VP Mike Nash pulled customers back into the present with the announcement that Vista Service Pack 2 will be released to a select group for testing just two days before Halloween.
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