"dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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>While, technically, IE8 is not a prerequisite to SP2, I have noted on more
>than one Vista machine that until you install the optional IE8, Windows
>Update will not offer SP2...[/color]

You're imagining things.

I had it offered to me and I've still not installed IE8.

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>"CWLee" <cdubyalee@post.harvard.edu> wrote in message
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>> (Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-1, IE-7, classic mode.)
>>
>> Based on previous posts here, I thought that by now MS's update service
>> would have offered me SP-2. No sign of it. Has it been sent to everyone
>> who should get it via automatic updates? I have not yet installed IE-8,
>> but previous posts here suggest that IE-8 is not a prerequisite.
>>
>> Insight?
>>
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>> CWLee
>> Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to sacred
>> cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not quotas, and
>> promote for performance, not preferences.
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