Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper

Performance, that's the part I'm interested on from this SP1 coming next year. And this is what the White Paper says about this topic:

Performance

The following list describes some of the performance improvements that Windows Vista SP1 will include:

• Improves the speed of copying and extracting files.
• Improves the time to become active from Hibernate and Resume modes.
• Improves the performance of domain-joined PCs when operating off the domain; in the current release version of Windows Vista, users would experience long delays when opening the File dialog box.
• Improves performance of Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 in Windows Vista, reducing CPU utilization and speeding JavaScript parsing.
• Improves battery life by reducing CPU utilization by not redrawing the screen as frequently, on certain computers.
• Improves the logon experience by removing the occasional 10-second delay between pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and the password prompt displaying.
• Addresses an issue in the current version of Windows Vista that makes browsing network file shares consume significant bandwidth and not perform as fast as expected.

I underlined those points that I think are affecting directly our UMPCs, as you can see that's more than 50% of the points that will be addressed in this service pack.

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Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta

Windows Vista Team Blog has just officially announced Vista SP1!

What is SP1?  What is it not?

In addition to updates we’ve previously released, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability and performance issues we’ve identified via customer feedback, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.  SP1 also makes additional improvements to the IT administration experience.  We didn’t design SP1 as a vehicle for releasing new features; however, some existing components do gain enhanced functionality in SP1.

More information on what’s included in SP1 can be found in the detailed white paper.

According to the same page, the SP1 of Vista should be released in the 1st quarter of 2008.

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Vista SP1 Will Fix Readyboost Flaws

Warner was right! Readyboost does not boost anything.  

Word started trickling out about the beta of Vista SP1 yesterday and this morning, Long Zheng posts what I hope is good news. One of the fixes in SP1 will address the horrible disk thrashing that I’ve been reporting on when you use the ReadyBoost feature.

Well, the good news is that is going to be fixed. In the old town from where I'm we have a old saying, it's better late than never.

 

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