Friday, August 26, 2011

I will continue to publish this blog for another year

Dear Readers,

While waiting, as anybody else, somehow anxiously, for hurricane Irene to pass by New York this weekend, I have renewed this domain name for another year and I will continue to cover, though more frequently, about Windows Vista. I have noticed that  there is a considerable number of users everywhere of this undeservedly underestimated PC operating system. Everybody, everywhere, have a safe weekend!

Monday, August 8, 2011

That's all folks!

It's been a pleasure to share my "advocacy" for a great operating system such as Vista with all of you in cyberspace. This blog will cease to exist this summer and, since I'm busy with other endeavors, this may be my last post. I really enjoyed the ride. I will continue to blog about Windows 7, though. THANKS SO MUCH!

Service Pack 2 and that is it for Vista?

Yes, believe or not, Windows Vista will be around for many years to come and it will receive mainstream support until April 10, 2012, and extended support until April 12, 2017, the latter only for commercial customers. Notice also that support for Windows Vista SP1 was already retired on July 12, 2011. To receive mainstream and extended support you need the new Service Pack 2 (SP2), which includes compatibility fixes for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards and, as usual, it will include  all of the updates that have been released since the previous service pack (SP1).