Posted by Thien Nguyen on Fri, Jun 26, 2009
And the consumer world rejoices at the new Service Pack release but I must inquire whether the information technology world is really interested in the release of Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2. I personally feel that for any consumer that has Vista and any IT professional maintaining and handling Vista would be ecstatic about this new service pack release. It does fix a lot of the current issues at hand with Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. As a personal user who took the venture in purchasing Windows Vista, there were a lot of application incompatibilities. A lot of programs would crash and many drivers for "older" devices would not install properly or not install at all. However, Microsoft was quick to release Service Pack 1 in which did resolve many of the application incompatibilities, program crashes, and driver installations. Service Pack 2 offers better upgrades.
According to the Microsoft website, Windows Vista Service Pack 2's most noticeable features will include support for Bluetooth 2.1 and Windows Connect Now Wi-Fi Configuration. Also with this Wi-Fi Configuration upgrade, Service Pack 2 improves the performance for Wi-Fi connection upon resumption from sleep mode. Lastly, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 supports the ability to record data onto Blu-Ray Disc media and technology. On the hardware side of upgrading to Service Pack 2, there is overall improved power management. This also includes the ability to manage these settings via Group Policy.
However, in the professional IT world where most businesses are still using XP Professional as their workstation operating system; these companies could care less about this release knowing that Windows 7 is waiting in the wings. Knowing this then, why put that much effort into Windows Vista when coming this October, Microsoft Windows 7 is due to release to the public? Well in my current situation, I'm not personally going to buy the latest version of Windows because I want to run through Vista. For the functions that I do on Vista including business, school, and leisure; there is no problem with Vista. Like all operating systems that first come out, there are going to be bugs, issues, problems, incompatibilities, etc. However, let's not think that by releasing Windows 7 is going to solve all that because the release of that operating system is going to cause new bugs, issues, problems, and incompatibilities. The consumer world, the professional IT world, and most of us have basically counted Windows Vista out and already want Windows 7 in. Windows Vista has become this generation's Windows Millennium Edition 2.0. But in any case, operating system user beware...