You asked for it, Now it’s real — Vista SP2 Dec 4,2008

By Paul | Dec 2, 2008

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Beginning Thursday Dec. 4^th, we will be making the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta available to everyone through a Customer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP will launch on TechNet and be available to anyone interested in trying out this service pack. The CPP is intended for technology enthusiasts, developers, and IT Pros who would like to test Service Pack 2 in their environments and with their applications prior to final release. For most customers, our best advice would be to wait until the final release prior to installing this service pack.

[Via Technet]

Yes you heard right, you can get into the Beta of Vista SP2 and not have to wait till April. Some things to remember:

It is a Beta
It will Have Bugs
It is for people who want to test it out
It should only be installed for people who need to test it out

Did the Xbox Experience break netflix on Demand activation?

By Paul | Nov 19, 2008

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According to Google Trends people are trying to activate there Xbox Experience with Netflix. This could be a problem for Netflix, I just tried and they are extremely slow in response. I am willing to guess that later on tonight the Netflix will go down when everyone comes home from work and tries the new Xbox Experience with Netflix. I’ve heard of problems with activating the Netflix on the Xbox 360, this will become 10 times as bad tonight when people want to hook up and try out this new service from Netflix. Microsoft should of released this one day at a time for each time zone. Some blogs talking about the problems that might come along with the update are:

Although this is just a few that talks about the experience and Netflix problems there are going to be more tonight when people start to come home from work wanting this service. I would bet over 100$ it will probably go down because to many request to sign up!! I hope they have the IT guys ready for this tonight or it will be a long night!!