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Microsoft Ships Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... subscribers to test prior to final release. And in the "near future" Microsoft will be making the release candidate more broadly available to anyone who wants to use it. LeBlanc said Microsoft is planning to release SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in the second quarter of 2009. SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include updates that have been delivered since the release of SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging standards, LeBlanc said. In an accompanying post, LeBlanc said Microsoft has made several application compatibility ...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC - Screenshots
Redmond Pie — ... Overall performance of Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 seems faster than Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. Check out the full changes document to see what’s new in Service Pack 2 of Windows Vista. ...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 enters Release Candidate stage
Obsessable News Feed — ... SP2 is not an update that will win points for pizazz; it's a very practical overhaul of security features and the like (although it does make some huge improvements to Windows' built in search features), but in theory if you install it you should see better perfromance and less risk of something terrible happening to your computer. The release candidate version isn't going to be quite as spic and span as the final release, of course, but it's worth going for anyway as long as you know what you're doing. ...

Vista SP2 Release Candidate Now Available [Downloads]
Lifehacker — ... for your upgrading pleasure. Grab it if you want better search, Bluetooth, and Blu-Ray, and all the system fixes. Like any release candidate, Microsoft doesn't want you to risk putting this batch of upgrades, fixes, and feature tweaks on a system you couldn't stand to see get buggy. Most of us who know development, though, know that, for the most part, they're pretty solid builds, and some may want to see their Wi-Fi resuming, application compatibility, and other nagging problems adressed in SP2 get fixed right quick. One big caveat of SP2 is that, unlike most service packs ...