Windows Vista 64 bit SP2. Update or wait?

Asking this in behalf of my son re his new laptop. This was offered as a windows update on his Vista 64 bit OS. Is anyone out there using Vista 64 bit SP2, and if so, any problems/issues with it?

 

I can't reply to this (but I am anyway I guess), but any SP should be installed. Running win 7 at the moment.

 

Hmm...just read some stuff on the Microsoft forums, and I'm gonna answer my own question. There are people having problems with this service pack, and it appears to be bad enough that I don't think I would advise my son to go ahead with it. Waiting on an answer, though, to the question of whether or not MS will continue provide critical updates to Vista 64 SP1.

 

Critical/security updates will still be offered, as well as SP2.
I know people still running XP and have yet to install SP3 (still running on SP2 or even SP1) and are offered updates.

You might not want automatic updates because it will keep being downloaded in the background and you will have to keep refusing to install it. Pick the notify but do not download option.

 

Thats pretty silly.

I have SP2 here. No issues whatsoever.

People like to blame their own problems on something unrelated. Or they have a malware infected machine, and blame the service pack for messing things up.

Same song and dance as every service pack, for every OS.

 

Just adding my 2 cents --- I've had problems with miscellaneous Windows updates occasionally, but my Vista SP2 update was perfect, and went very smoothly --- no problems.

 

The only problems I've ever seen associated with installing SP's has always been 3rd party software, not in windows itself. Granted, in a working enviornment that can be considered a large concern, which is why testing is always done first before implementing to numerous PC's in said enviornment.