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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Expected Tomorrow
arcticstoat writes "After dishing out a few copies of the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to select customers in October, Microsoft has now decided to let the general public get their hands on the beta of the service pack, starting from tomorrow. The beta of the service pack will be made available via Microsoft's Customer Preview Program on 4 December, and it includes all the updates since Service Pack 1, as well as a few other bits and pieces. Most notably, Microsoft says that Service Pack 2 'improves performance for Wi-Fi connection after resuming from sleep mode,' and adds the Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack, ID strings for VIA's Nano CPU and support for the exFAT file system for large flash devices."
you shouldn't be running vista then :P
I've been running vista since I built my PC in Jan.
Except for some video driver issues back in march. I think I've had 4-5 crashes.(usually game related)
I use the "sleep" function so it goes weeks/months without a reboot... Usually even then just because a windows patch required a reboot..
Is Vista the best thing out there? probably not. But I bet its at least as stable XP at this point in its life cycle.
Almost everyone I've seen complaining that it's terrible has either been trying to run it a on a machine they shouldn't(too old or a laptop without vista drivers) or there doing something that would crash any OS...