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Vista Service Pack 1 Avalable Tomarrow!
Get ready to hit that "check for updates" button.
There’s some speculation floating around that Windows Vista SP1 will be released on February 15th, which is three weeks away from this coming Friday. Vista users could look at it as a belated Valentines Day present from our buddies over at Microsoft. Digitimes is the source of the information, and it was pulled from a Nanya spokesman who was quoted as saying (my emphasis on the text): But the PC market will rebound in the second quarter, he said. The launch of an updated version of Microsoft Vista on February 15, if its prices do not go up too much compared to its previous version, may help boost DRAM sales. The article’s focus was on how the DRAM supply might be a little tight in the second half of this year as Vista sales pick up more speed. You would expect Microsoft to inform partners of the projected Vista SP1 release date, and I would therefore say that this should be pretty accurate. We knew that it would be sometime within the first few months of 2008, and this fits right in. When asked about the expected release date Microsoft’s response is typically that it will ship when it meets their quality standards. When they made the Release Candidate available back in December there were some bugs that really annoyed me, but the recent Refresh has fixed all of my issues. In terms of quality I would say that Vista SP1 is ready to go. Vista SP1 doesn’t really add any new features, but I’ve found that the performance is significantly better over a copy of Vista running without the Service Pack. Transferring files, searching for files, and network browsing speeds have all been drastically improved. Needless to say I’m looking forward to February 15th! http://cybernetnews.com/2008/01/23/vista-sp1-release-date-february-15th/
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Bummer, my work laptop was reverse upgraded to XP. I'll miss out on all of the fun!
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Cool, thanks for the info! I've been running Vista for close to a year now I think? No problems at all, I like the OS. Once I tweaked it a bit, it has been running perfectly. Not a single virus, trojan, etc. yet. I use the Vista firewall and Defender and AVG's free edition AV.
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I hate Vista, and I hope the service pack fixes the slow file transfer problem over a network.
We back up our documents to the server on our network at work. On Windows 2000 and XP, I could back up my laptop in about 20 minutes. On Vista, it is taking about 20 hours, and that is not an exaggeration. If you google, "slow transfer time over a network with Vista", you'll see what I mean.
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Mrs. MTI got a new Toshiba laptop last week, preloaded with Vista Home and after a day or so of working with it, finds that it has a lot. The next couple of days of using it in the default mode, she's found it to have nice user features, such as the multimedia management.
My initial reaction was that they "moved the deck chairs" around to make it harder to get to specific system functions, then it hit me . . . it's supposed to insulate the average user from getting to the system functions, to minimize screwing it up . . . very Apple-ish. |
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surprise, surprise.
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My company uses an outside contractor that handles our networking / computer issues, and they say this a known problem.
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Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 6.12.2007 I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it. But after upgrading a few machines here and doing some tests, I changed my mind. If Microsoft’s decision to ditch the WGA kill switch in SP1 didn’t convince you, would you be interested in a 300% increase in tripling your network file transfer speeds?
Forget the reports you might have read about SP1 resulting in no performance boost. That story was based on a silly artificial benchmark involving scripting of Office applications. Back here in the real world, where gigabit network connections are now commonplace, you’ll see at least one huge improvement when transferring files over network connections. In its original release, Vista had some design problems with its networking stack, resulting in slow file transfers, especially when connecting to computers running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Home Server (all three of these products share a great deal of their code base, including core networking components). In Vista SP1, file transfer speeds are dramatically improved. In this post, I’ll describe what I saw. I did two sets of file-transfer tests using two separate systems configured to dual boot between Vista RTM and the new Vista SP1 release candidate. Both systems have dual- or quad-core processors (both in the Intel Core 2 Duo family) The first group of files consisted of two large DVD images in ISO format, totaling 4.2 GB. The second group of files was a folder filled with more than 3,000 files of all types, in 299 subfolders, totaling roughly 6.5 GB. For the first test, I transferred the two groups of files from a shared folder on an HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server to the two test systems running RTM, recording the total transfer time for each one. Then I rebooted the two systems into an SP1 installation and repeated the test. I converted the times into throughput rates; here’s the result (note that bigger bars equal higher throughput and thus better performance). As you can see, the file transfers under Vista SP1 were dramatically faster than the Vista RTM times. For the directory full of many small files, the performance increase throughput was more than 300%; for the large files, the speed increase was roughly 260%. Note that you can expect similar results when transferring files from Vista to systems running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. For the second set of tests, I performed transfers between the two machines running equivalent versions of Windows Vista: RTM to RTM, SP1 to SP1. Here, the results were less dramatic. For the folder full of small files, the throughput rate increased by about 50% under SP1, and the large files transferred slightly slower, although still faster than the transfer from Windows Home Server. |
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False Alarm....
Looks like MS pushed the windows update launch date to sometime mid April. They are just releasing it to MSDN subscribers today. (I thought that's what beta testing was for! ) Anyway, If you don't want to wait until April there are working torrents available.
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