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blogs.zdnet.com - 12/2/2008

Vista SP2: What’s inside?

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Over on the jkOnTheRun blog, Kevin Tofel posted the most complete list I've seen of what's in Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) -- which sounds like it is on track to RTM in April of 2009.

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