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  • Servicing via CBS (component based servicing)

    In Vista and Windows Server 2008, the operating system is made up of components.  In a simplest sense, a component is a small grouping of files based on a feature area, functionality, and reusability.  A manifest defines how the files are grouped in a component and largely, this is something that each product group at Microsoft has defined for their own product.