both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be released to the
general public for testing next week. This after private testers with
the MSDN and TechNet services receive their copies first.
For the first time, the SP2 standalone package will be delivered to
users not according to operating system build, but to byte length. So
the 32-bit standalone service pack (302 MB with the basic five
languages, 390 MB for multi-language) will update both 32-bit Vista
and 32-bit Windows Server 2008. Then there will be two 64-bit
standalones, including one which covers x64 architectures (508 MB /
622 MB) and one for Itanium 64-bit (384 MB / 396 MB). The RC will
represent a kind of dress rehearsal for this new method of
distribution.
While the big theme for Vista SP2 has been reliability improvements,
perhaps the most prominent new operating system feature undergoing its
final round of tests will be the ability to burn to Blu-ray media
using BD-R. This is being described as "the ability to record data to
Blu-ray Disc Media," which is not exactly the same as saying "burn
high-def videos." Currently, the Ultimate version of Vista SP1 enables
users to burn recorded videos from digital video sources to DVD.
Though it's technically feasible to burn high-def videos, when they're
burned to regular DVD, they won't be all that long.
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