Firstly, my apologies for not posting sooner.  I’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks, and we’ve had a visitor from London for the last few days.  So, Microsoft have released Vista Service Pack 2 into beta testing, and I've been taking a look at it.  So far I’m pretty underwhelmed with the included changes, but that’s a good thing.  Service packs aren’t supposed to install new features, but they do.  This one however is lighter on the new features than previous packs for XP for example.

Examples of included features are improved wireless configuration (WCN), Bluetooth 2.1, better RSS feed integration in IE, Windows Search 4.0 and Hyper-V and some power management improvements.  The Windows Server 2008 features, which I haven’t installed yet include power management for servers, which might be of interest.  My server runs 24/7 and has nine hard disks, so anything that keeps power consumption down in that box would be good.  Unfortunately my RAID card doesn’t effectively handle power management, so I’m not sure how far I can actually go with this.  We’ll see!

There’s really not going to be much to report with this service pack, unless things go horribly wrong.  If it keeps going as it is, then its going to be a very smooth rollout indeed.