Windows Vista SP2 officially released

Robert Hallock 26 May, 2009 at 10:57am ET Article published in Tech

After months of testing and numerous betas and release candidates, Microsoft has finally approved the final press of Windows Vista Service Pack 2.

The new service pack offers bug fixes, a rollup of the updates released since Vista’s 2007 RTM, and a selection of new features:

SP2 contains Blue tooth 2.1 feature pack supporting the most recent specification for Blue tooth technology.
Ability to record data on Blu-Ray media.
Adds Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi Configuration to Windows Vista SP2.
exFAT file system now supports UTC timestamps, which enables correct file synchronization across time zones.
SP2 provides support for new form factors, such as ICCD/CCID. new form factor support –example USB form factor as opposed to PCMCIA).
Support for the new VIA 64-bit CPU.

As a note, SP2 requires that the system be prepared with SP1 prior to installation.

Download: x86-32
Download: x86-64

Comments

26 May 2009 ~ 5:47pm Camman Applied the update package linked and it hosed my Vista install, thank god for System Restore, got everything working again, guess I'll wait for it to be rolled out via Windows Update.
26 May 2009 ~ 6:54pm Thrax It's the same package from Windows Update.
26 May 2009 ~ 7:29pm scott I also applied the package and all is well.

Scott
26 May 2009 ~ 8:27pm Camman Dunno what happened, I like to consider myself not a noob, but who knows. MS hasn't started distributing it as critical on WU yet, right?
26 May 2009 ~ 8:51pm mirage I have SP2 already installed on 4 different computers at home (1 of them Vista 64bit) since it was released to RTM one month ago. No problems at all. Actually, no difference at all
26 May 2009 ~ 9:44pm DrLiam Was there any performance boost noticed by anyone?
27 May 2009 ~ 12:02am mertesn

Camman wrote:

Applied the update package linked and it hosed my Vista install, thank god for System Restore, got everything working again, guess I'll wait for it to be rolled out via Windows Update.

I find the most reliable method is to slipstream the SP into my OS image and install everything at once. Just seems to work more smoothly that way.
27 May 2009 ~ 12:40am Thrax If it's anything like beta 1, 2 or the RCs, no slipstreaming here.