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Vista/Server 2008 SP2 Beta To Be Opened to Public

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Dec 2008 23:31 UTC

In late October, Microsoft announced the beta of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Server 2008. This beta was limited in audience, and today Microsoft has fixed that: it opened up the beta for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and coming Thursday, it will be opened to the general public. The releases will be distributed via TechNet.

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RE[7]: Comment by flanque

by satan666 on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 16:36 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by flanque"

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2008-04-18

...and, as someone who has been testing both windows 7 and vista sp2 i can tell you that even in beta form sp2 installed vista feel snappier than before. and windows 7, well, it just rocks, people are not going to be disappointed. well MS haters will be, since they will have one less thing to hate about

Well, I think people don't hate MS because Vista sucks (which it does actually). People hate MS because of MS' business conduct and ethics (or lack of).

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RE[8]: Comment by flanque

by Soulbender on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 17:13 in reply to "RE[7]: Comment by flanque"

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2005-08-18

People hate MS because of MS' business conduct and ethics (or lack of).

I dont hate MS, I hate their substandard products. While MS certainly ain't no altar boy in terms of ethics there are many, many companies with worse ethics (it's not like MS negligence caused a gigantic chemical leak that killed 15000 of people or anything) so it's almost lame to hate them for that.

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RE[9]: Comment by flanque

by sbergman27 on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 17:42 in reply to "RE[8]: Comment by flanque"

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2005-07-24

I dont hate MS, I hate their substandard products. While MS certainly ain't no altar boy in terms of ethics there are many...

I dislike Microsoft because I don't care for their products, and because as a 700lb gorilla, and unlike other software companies, things that they do which are of questionable intent or ethics cause massive headaches for those who don't care to do things the One Microsoft Way. If Corel decided that they wanted to create their own nonstandard Java called Corel-Java, I would simply see it as a folly. But even today, in 2008, I still have to deal with certain sites which my clients need in their business which *require* MS-Java.

Edited 2008-12-03 17:43 UTC

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