{"id":370,"date":"2008-10-15T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/10\/15\/microsoft-aiming-to-deliver-vista-sp2-before-windows-7.aspx"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:41:10","slug":"microsoft-aiming-to-deliver-vista-sp2-before-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft aiming to deliver Vista SP2 before Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows team is readying second service packs (SP2) for Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and for its server complement, Windows Server 2008 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and is aiming to deliver these SP2s before it releases Windows 7, according to my sources. <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hearing that Microsoft already has delivered a beta of at least Vista SP2 to select hardware and software partners, the same way that it has been providing a hand-chosen few with early builds of Windows 7. I noticed that Microsoft has put up <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948465\">a place holder Knowledge Base article on October 2<\/a> regarding the forthcoming SP2 betas. (I see a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/bink.nu\/news\/vista-sp2-information-about-windows-server-2008-service-pack-2-and-windows-vista-service-pack-2.aspx\">other bloggers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/microsoft.ars\/2008\/10\/14\/vista-sp2-and-server-2008-sp2-watch-this-space\">saw this<\/a>, as well.) <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1643\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1643\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1643<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows team is readying second service packs (SP2) for Vista \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and for its server complement, Windows Server 2008 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and is aiming to deliver these SP2s before it releases Windows 7, according to my sources. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hearing that Microsoft already has delivered a beta of at least Vista SP2 to select hardware and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}