Windows Vista SP2 before Windows 7
WinInfo | at | by Mike
According to ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft plans to ship Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 before it ships Windows 7. The first SP2 builds have, in fact, already been sent out to some Microsoft partners, though it's unclear whether there are any major new features this time around. My guess is no: Microsoft seems pretty serious about decoupling major functional changes from its service packs when possible, and I'd be surprised if SP2 was as far-reaching as SP1, which wasn't exactly a major change.