Vista Service Pack 2 released

Microsoft has just released a mega-upgrade, this morning, for Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) as well as Windows Server 2008.

These large software packages are called Service Packs (this one is SP2) by Microsoft and include hardware enhancements OS updates, enterprise, set-up and deployment improvements — most notably Windows Search 4.0, improved Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and Blue-ray disc support.

In the past, installing Service Packs has been time consuming. Plus, they’re huge source hogs. Usually after about an hour of waiting your computer would (might?) be usable again. The Vista SP2 upgrade is a completely different story.

Installation was 100% painless. On a nearly new Asus laptop (running Windows Vista Business edition) SP2 took a total of 23 minutes to download, install and restart the computer for use.

The best part of all is that the upgraded computer is running perfectly. So far, everything seems to be performing just fine, thank you. Actually the Asus might be working a drop faster than before.

We’ll let you know when or if that change.