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No, this has nothing to do with Aero. There are customisations that cannot be accomplished in Windows Vista or 7 even with Aero enabled. You still cannot get the same degree of fine-tuning in GUI adjustment with Windows Vista or 7 -- regardless of what "mode" (Aero, Basic, or Classic) -- as you could with XP. There is so much real estate wasted by "fluffy crap", particularly with Aero enabled, and you can't adjust most of it. For example, window border sizes -- even with the Border property set to 0 -- are still fat/wide compared to XP. And you still can't get a readable title bar (no matter what "mode" you use) if you use darker colours in your theme; you end up with this unreadable shit pile.

Microsoft did all this on purpose, and that's confirmed by their further removal of GUI adjustment capabilities in Windows 8, in addition to their own reps. stating public that they are intentionally doing away with such.

If I could get the same UI customisation capabilities in Windows Vista or 7 then I wouldn't be bitching. It's as sootman said -- Microsoft should have let alone many of the things that made XP sleek/convenient/fast and instead improved upon that, instead of doing things like screwing around with the GUI customisation capabilities (starting with Vista and progressively gotten more aggressive about removing such in 7 and especially 8). The GUI is just one of many things they've touched, but Windows is a GUI-based OS, and the GUI is the most important part. If it wasn't, you wouldn't see people complaining about the lack of Start button and related menus on 8.

If you really think you can get the same degree of control on 7, then you need to do exactly what I said in my previous post -- sit down with an XP machine (or in a VM) and try to get it to look the same, or even remotely the same. You can't. How do I know? Because at my past job (at/for Microsoft -- surprise!) we moved from XP to Vista to 7, and for the last 5 years I had to deal with the GUI idiocy. Five days a week I'd come home and feel relieved using my XP workstation, after 10 hours of tolerating a shitty UI. About the only thing I miss from 7 is the taskbar improvements (specifically the "Pinning" feature), although I loathe the fact that you cannot remove (not shorten, but completely remove) the "Show desktop" crap on the far right of the taskbar.

On the bright side, at least Windows 7 fixed this total catastrophy (one of the few things in XP that drives me insane, and the workarounds provided on that site don't actually fix the problem; it's also broken in Vista, just in a different way). When a mouse-driven OS can't even get mouse tracking correct, you have to wonder if the vendor even understands the technology they're trying to utilise/program for.

There are even things like this in Windows 7 which baffle the mind -- things you cannot unsee once you've seen them. And with regard to that one, I ask you: Microsoft has had 5 years to fix that, so why haven't they? How is it no one at the company noticed that problem, yet one random Internet guy managed to figure out the root cause?

So do not tell me "everything in 7 is great" -- the number of stupidities in 7, for me, easily outweighs the negatives in XP. The biggest, as I've demonstrated so far, is the GUI. If Microsoft had kept most of the 2K/XP GUI, as well as its adjustments/customisation capabilitie

No, this has nothing to do with Aero. There are customisations that cannot be accomplished in Windows Vista or 7 even with Aero enabled. You still cannot get the same degree of fine-tuning in GUI adjustment with Windows Vista or 7 -- regardless of what "mode" (Aero, Basic, or Classic) -- as you could with XP. There is so much real estate wasted by "fluffy crap", particularly with Aero enabled, and you can't adjust most of it. For example, window border sizes -- even with the Border property set to 0 -- are still fat/wide compared to XP. And you still can't get a readable title bar (no matter what "mode" you use) if you use darker colours in your theme; you end up with this unreadable shit pile.

Microsoft did all this on purpose, and that's confirmed by their further removal of GUI adjustment capabilities in Windows 8, in addition to their own reps. stating public that they are intentionally doing away with such.

If I could get the same UI customisation capabilities in Windows Vista or 7 then I wouldn't be bitching. It's as sootman said -- Microsoft should have let alone many of the things that made XP sleek/convenient/fast and instead improved upon that, instead of doing things like screwing around with the GUI customisation capabilities (starting with Vista and progressively gotten more aggressive about removing such in 7 and especially 8). The GUI is just one of many things they've touched, but Windows is a GUI-based OS, and the GUI is the most important part. If it wasn't, you wouldn't see people complaining about the lack of Start button and related menus on 8.

If you really think you can get the same degree of control on 7, then you need to do exactly what I said in my previous post -- sit down with an XP machine (or in a VM) and try to get it to look the same, or even remotely the same. You can't. How do I know? Because at my past job (at/for Microsoft -- surprise!) we moved from XP to Vista to 7, and for the last 5 years I had to deal with the GUI idiocy. Five days a week I'd come home and feel relieved using my XP workstation, after 10 hours of tolerating a shitty UI. About the only thing I miss from 7 is the taskbar improvements (specifically the "Pinning" feature), although I loathe the fact that you cannot remove (not shorten, but completely remove) the "Show desktop" crap on the far right of the taskbar.

On the bright side, at least Windows 7 fixed this total catastrophy (one of the few things in XP that drives me insane, and the workarounds provided on that site don't actually fix the problem; it's also broken in Vista, just in a different way). When a mouse-driven OS can't even get mouse tracking correct, you have to wonder if the vendor even understands the technology they're trying to utilise/program for.

There are even things like this in Windows 7 which baffle the mind -- things you cannot unsee once you've seen them. And with regard to that one, I ask you: Microsoft has had 5 years to fix that, so why haven't they? How is it no one at the company noticed that problem, yet one random Internet guy managed to figure out the root cause?

So do not tell me "everything in 7 is great" -- the number of stupidities in 7, for me, easily outweighs the negatives in XP. The biggest, as I've demonstrated so far, is the GUI. If Microsoft had kept most of the 2K/XP GUI, as well as its adjustments/customisation capabilitie

I don't do that as a job... I help and support people out of the kindness of my heart. As for the Fisher Price theme. You can change that without impacting the rest. Personally, I like "Royale Noir". Haven't used it in ages, though as I stopped using Windows personally. The few XP desktops I keep supporting, I installed it as default. Well, I do if a re-installation was necessary. Most people seem to really prefer it over the Luna scheme.

Indeed, I haven't seen that.

The 9-year-old milk campaign was close though.

Here are a couple of videos from MS Office Labs with their vision of what MS products might look like in 2019. Check out the second vid at about 2:05 to see a modular phone system in action.

That seems to be a 50/50 split... I use a theme that came with the Media Centre Edition. It's called Royale Noir. You can use it on stock XP Home/Pro too. I have a Theme file for it, but I have no idea where I got it form. I think my sister gave it to me.

I've never met a windows fanboy defending their faith in person (have met plenty of Mac fanboys at work though!). Most Windows users are normal people just doing stuff with their computers.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/

http://www.neowin.net/

http://www.winsupersite.com/

http://www.zunescene.com/

http://www.zuneluv.com/

I could go on and even mention the rabid Xbox 360 fanboys that ignore the flaws and after market costs of their console of choice while attacking anyone who buys a PS3 for any purpose.

...2...1...done!

And we can all safely assume none of those will be using a new laptop designed to be used on a pilot program to test a new operating system, or not?

Even if they do, I suspect that the fact that the new operating systems includes a simple option in the Settings menu to configure the Search key back to function as a Caps Lock key will deal with any difficulties quite well.

DOES GOOGLE NOT HAVE ANY DBA'S WORKING FOR THEM?

I assume that any Google DBA's or SQL programmers that edit code using Chrome OS notebooks and need caps lock functionality more than they need a Search quick-key while doing so are expected to be competent enough to go to the Settings menu and select the appropriate option to set the function of the modifier key to Caps Lock instead of Search.

They are going to eliminate the Caps Lock key from all the notebooks made for that operating system. Why? Because they know better and we are all idiots.

The Chrome notebooks have a search key in the spot in which Caps Lock traditionally resides, but include an option to switch the function to Caps Lock instead of search. (source (also links to and has shot from Google's Chrome OS introduction.)

According to http://www.istartedsomething.com/20101208/fear-not-chrome-os-has-caps-lock it has an option. Crisis over.

It has already been reported that you can change the search key back into a caps lock key if you so desire through a preference. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20101208/fear-not-chrome-os-has-caps-lock/

That's the stupidest argument I've ever heard. The core problem with it is that it relies on the assumption that an OS and it's respective applications will break horribly at anything other than 96 DPI. While this is true on Windows (and indeed would make running Windows on a 200 DPI screen a prescription for eye strain), it is a Windows-only problem.

Sort of. Windows can lie about DPI and scale everything up, so that interface layouts don't break like they used to in the past. Se7en improved it by a lot, but it's still not good enough and requires a ton of work from application developers.

You can end up with this:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/120.png

The start menu looks fine, because Seven comes with 128x128 icons for everything, if I'm not mistaken. However, take a close look at Wordpad - the toolbar icons and the zoom on the bottom.

It gets much worse for legacy apps. For example, this:

DPI virtualization: http://a.imagehost.org/0342/SS-2010-05-15_01_14_47.png
XP-mode scaling: http://h.imagehost.org/0718/SS-2010-05-15_01_18_02.png

The first one looks like blurry shit (as I've said before), and the second one breaks the layout.

Font scaling and image scaling are solved problems, get with the times.

As you can see above, it's *not* a solved problem.

Erm.. the OS will clearly say 'Evaluation Copy' on the right. See http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/windows7rc_large.jpg

True.. But given the ability for ignoring stuff like virus scanner trial expirations, this is hardly screaming at the top of it's voice.

Erm.. the OS will clearly say 'Evaluation Copy' on the right. See http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/windows7rc_large.jpg

Also, on this topic...

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090611/uac-in-windows-7-still-broken-microsoft-wont-fix-code-injection-vulnerability/

You can elevate arbitrary code in Windows 7 to admin privileges with the Windows 7 default settings, no UAC questions asked, and MS won't fix that.

There are actually changes in Windows 7 that help with this. WiFi virtualization was added to the Windows 7 kernel allowing you to run two WiFi connections from the same hardware adapter. So you could put a PC in range of a normal access point and then share the connection by creating an access point on the second virtual adapater. With previous versions of Windows, you would need two hardware adapters, or you would be limited to sharing a LAN connection.

Oh, you mean like this UAC flaw that allows any user to gain 'root' which Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided isn't a security flaw and have *completely refused to fix*. Despite the fact that you know, it allows anyone with a user account to get admin privileges.

Yeah great.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090130/uac-security-flaw-windows-7-beta-proof/

I think you're right that MS doesn't care as much as it used to. Take a look at See Whatâ(TM)s New in Microsoft Web Applications 2010 in the Office 2010 preview videos. If you seek to 1:15, you'll see MS show using a Firefox browser with Sharepoint. They never would have shown a competitor five or ten years ago.

I think that presently Microsoft is more of a risk to Google than Google is to Microsoft. Why? Bing.com has real market share, and they've done a good job of copying most of their algorithms and techniques. Google is nowhere near being the same competitive threat. Chrome (my favorite browser) is a meager 1% market share. Switching browsers is dramatically easier than switching operating systems, and they have not been able to drive users to them even then. Switching search engines is trivial, and as such more liable to fads and more easily influenced. Not to mention that MSFT's earnings are roughly 4 times those of Google, even despite the Vista debacle. MSFT - one of the worst companies in the history of man kind - has massive staying power, and enjoys a heavily entrenched position. The risk that Google is the next has-been is much greater than the same thing happening to MSFT, IMHO. Which is why I am doing my part, diligently sabotaging every MSFT product I encounter, purging them from my life and the life of my friends and family. But I have no illusions and I am still afraid, very afraid.

Microsoft have said (in the video here and on here) it supports Firefox and Safari (so presumably Chrome) just as well as IE. No mention of Opera but I see no reason as to why it wouldn't work. I think the video mentions that it works on Macs too.

Windows is as secure
                  http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10156617-56.html/ Windows UAC flaw
                  http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090204/second-windows-7-uac-flaw-malware-self-elevate/ Windows UAC flaw
                  http://www.linux.com/feature/131059/ Only Ubuntu survived Pwn to Own contest.

has more products
                  http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist/linuxlist/linuxlist.html/ Linux software encyclopedia
                                There are literally millions of unix scripts, programs, and utilities for Linux.
                                I will concede that there are several 3rd party tools that are windows-only, and limit the adaptability
                                of some business's switching, but you'll never win the "more products" argument in windows favor.

Easier to install
                  This will vary with the flavor of linux. Some are definitely more challenging to get functional. If
                  you compare the installation / setup time for 50 computers, with ease of installation being a priority in your
                  choice of distributions, then you can have them up & running quicker, and more consistently with Linux than
                  with windows.

Because Microsoft does not consider this a bug. It is a "design change":

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090131/microsoft-dismisses-windows-7-uac-security-flaw-insists-by-design/

but is certainly no security expert.

MS have already said that this flaw is "by design" to stop the appearance of too many UAC prompts when users alter their own system settings

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090131/microsoft-dismisses-windows-7-uac-security-flaw-insists-by-design/

Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta (with proof of concept code) (Jan 30)
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090130/uac-security-flaw-windows-7-beta-proof/

and:

Malware can turn off UAC in Windows 7; "By design" says Microsoft (Jan 30)
http://www.withinwindows.com/

Leaks indicate Microsoft is un-rethinking the Win7 taskbar (Dec8)
http://www.betanews.com/article/Leaks_indicate_Microsoft_is_unrethinking_the_Win7_taskbar/1228780333

The prevailing driver for buying new versions of Windows has always been the hope that the next version would be decent and safe (a bit like Bush & Blair promising glory to get elected).

At least they have given up on that.

I still won't buy it.

Windows Vista doesn't just cache more aggressively, though that's certainly one valid complaint. An OS generally should never page live VM pages out to disk except when there is memory contention. That means that prefetched data in the disk cache should drop to darn near zero before you start seeing paging traffic. If it doesn't, something is badly wrong. That said, this is just one of many significant memory problems with Vista.

The display subsystem is designed in such a way that any apps that use GDI for drawing get all their windows double buffered, resulting in memory bloat and poor performance (source: Guardian.co.uk). Indeed, changes in the window management system result in a huge reduction in memory footprint in Windows 7. A fifty percent reduction in backing store size is not a small improvement by any stretch of the imagination, particularly when you consider that most of that bloat represented a Vista regression relative to XP....

The OS growing to consume all available memory is a virtue is only valid if the OS uses it sensibly. If it squanders it and then ends up ejecting useful pages as a result, that is not a good thing no matter how you look at it....

Colour would provide for greater information density, but if you were in certain environments where the ambient light was not white there could be issues unless complementary colours were used

According to a bit of a bit of tinkering around, the data is stored in the brightness (4 levels - so 2 bits per triangle) rather than the color. The color helps cellphone cameras callibrate according to whatever the incident light conditions are. The tags will work in monochrome as well, but you'll get best results with color.

The tradeoff is the limitation in quantity

The tradeoff with QR codes and such is the limitation in quantity. It's also in inferior pattern recognition. The tradeoff with MS Tags is net access.

I can already do paperless boarding at the airport where I live.

My suggestion had nothing to do with boarding. In an airport, you can watch the monitors for flight info, or listen for announcements. If the monitor has a tag next to my flight, I can scan the tag and get up to the minute information on my flight. Now I can go to the lounge, coffee shop, whatever, and rest assured that I'm not going to miss any announcement. In any case it's just an example. You can choose to not see the point if you wish (it seems you've already made that choice).

if you opened your web browser and used a scanner attached to your PC it would take you to our company web page with our profiles.

Your scanner + PC are very heavy and non-portable compared to my cell phone. I'll take this solution any day.

why bother with a piece of paper when you can beam v-card data between cellphones directly

You can't beam stuff to an iPhone (for example). Does beaming work across OSes (like winmo to blackberry) -- I don't know. The iphone is a valid scenario too -- people exchange numbers outside of work as well. In any case, I repeat, this was just an example. You don't even have to print the tag on your card. You could simply carry an image of it on your phone. Someone else pointed out another cool app -- tagging exhibits in museums and stuff so you can get more information on them than what can be physically displayed.

None of this requires a new encoding format nor does it require a closed single-vendor service to accompany it.

Yes -- the existing formats were inadequate. Either they suffered from poor patter recognition results, or they failed entirely in poor ambient conditions, or they had practical limits to the amount of data they could carry. MS tags get beyond this, but require a net connection. Your paranoia about a single-vendor service is also misplaced. Privacy concerns are always valid for services of this nature. But in terms of you as a consumer trusting the provider -- you already place much greater trust in single entities -- think search engines, webmail, etc.

I don't completely understand it, but apparently it does help. From what I understand, the data is actually encoded into the brightness (4 levels) rather than the color -- but the color helps the camera to calibrate itself to get a better image or something like that.

Apparently, they aren't too sensitive to color distortions -- the data seems to be stored in the brightness as opposed to the color. I don't really understand the technical stuff behind it, but see here for an example of monochrome or two-tone tags that work

Monochrome works, but pure greyscale seems to cause issues.

... give it a shot and you'll see what I mean ...

Forgot to mention: Easiest way to install it is to point your phone to http://gettag.mobi/

To give it a whirl, scan any of the tags in this article (same as the main story link).

Possibly my favorite things that Microsoft has ever produced are their new User Interface Guidelines, especially the Warning Messages page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511263.aspx

This page also provides a good summary of the other Interface Guidelines:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070301/updated-vista-ux-guide/

Microsoft's programmers aren't innocent, but I think quite a few of the inane warning messages are from third-party software vendors.

That image compositing software is extremely awesome. If you'd like to learn more about it, check out this article.

Considering that Linux can run quite decently with 16 MB RAM and a 200MHz CPU (so long as you dump the GUI), it's outrageous that Vista can barely manage to boot with 1Gig of RAM.

You can do the same thing with Windows (Ok, well, Microsoft can).

But you and I both know that that copy of Windows is not Vista/XP/2000/98/and so on, much as a Linux build that runs on the same reqs is not Ubuntu Desktop.

And the ribbon seems the way to go for Windows, google "Windows Scenic"

( http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080917/windows-scenic-new-ribbon-based-ui-platform/ )

For those folks who love XP but are hankering for a newer appearance there is a new black color scheme called Royale Noir. It's pretty svelte, easy on the eyes and has a cool reflection highlight. I've been very happy with it and it works without any additional plugins since it's an offical Microsoft apperance. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/

This is similar to what a blogger, Long Zheng at the I Started Something blog, did. He was reading a Microsoft security/phishing article which made mention to the fictional website "www.somebadsite.com". This was an unresolved domain name so he did what any ethical person would do - he purchased it and linked it to his own site.

That's some serious Google link juice right there. I wonder if the links were nofollowed.

P.s., looks like that link has been removed from Microsoft's article.

This is all wrong. Microsoft did not apply for patents, they applied for trademarks for the names they're giving the features, namely "ClearTracks" and "InPrivate". Unless you can find existing use for those names in privacy software you're not likely to find any objections to the trademark applications. Trademarks are not a claim of invention and in no way prevent others from implementing the exact same ideas or algorithms. They're simply a claim to a name in a specific context.

Even the original blogger got it right:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080820/microsoft-hints-private-browsing-feature-ie/

I don't expect Slashdot to actually fix the summary, though. The word "patent" will generate a lot traffic, whereas everyone will simply yawn over "trademark".

They aren't patent applications, they're trademark applications. Check the source

BIG difference.

Patents==Bad and subject to prior art.
Trademarks==Good, and not subject to prior art.

Uh, no, that's completely wrong. Unless you're suggesting that Eric Traut doesn't work for or speak for Microsoft. In the talk he gave, clearly MinWin was supposed to be part of Windows 7.

How did Windows 7 lose the MinWin kernel exactly? I know that none of you people actually read articles, but when MinWin was discussed it was specifically mentioned that it was not a component of the upcoming Windows 7. It was a research project, not developments from the Windows team.

Go ahead, watch the video demo. He explicitly says this:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071019/eric-talk-demo-windows-7-minwin/

Of course it's more fun to pretend that Microsoft did say that they were going to include it, and only recently stated that they're not. At this point you are making fun of your own delusions, which is on par for Slashdot but still mentally unhealthy.

Conan O'Brien's visit to Intel HQ last year was absolutely hilarious.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070506/conan-intel-video/

Although, looking back, there were pieces that were really sad, such as pillars on the wall in the middle of a huge cubicle farm that made me think of parking garages.

agressiv

Oh dear.. so much blind buyin to the Microsoft marketing.

>> No mention or acknowledgement of WPF/WCF or the new APIs that are and 'set' to replace Win32/Win64

Those API's haven't been proven. Yes they look promising, but until there are a significant set of apps out there using them fully, we won't know if they're any good. And there are signs of that not everything is peachy there: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071206/yahoo-messenger-vista-launches/

>> Go to Channel 10 and watch videos on why XAML/XPS was created and how it trumps every aspect of other display/print technologies

Shocking that microsoft would say their technologies are better than the competition.

>> Let alone how it is an integrated aspect of the video API system in Vista, making programming freaky simple for advanced features and new UI platforms like 3D.

Blah blah blah. We heard plenty of hype about how the compositing in Vista was so wickedly advanced and it allowed effects that couldn't be done on other platforms. That may or may not be true, I haven't studied it in detail so I'm not going to say. And yet in reality it doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Vista doesn't have anything that doesn't exist on other platforms as well, requiring less resources. So even if it is more advanced, the actual benefits are not there.

>> doesn't mention OS Xs lack of keyboard support

Bullshit and you know it.

>> Office 2007 is a new direction in GUI paradigms, and is WELL accepted in the business world

And you know this via your crystal ball? Stop making statements you can't back up.

>> Menus were a hack to make features available in a GUI context, but are a draw back to non-graphical UIs.

Armchair usability experts are funny...

>> Let alone OS X is still a hybrid 64bit OS, using 32bit code throughout the OS, unlike Vista x64

Of course every windows app is still 32 bit, so your 64bit OS doesn't really make much difference in performance. The only way to really take advantage of 64 bit these days is to run Linux, where ~95% of your apps will be native 64bit (aside from some proprietary apps).

Why not?

Software is never perfect; releases tend to be when it's "good enough". If you wait for perfection it never gets released. Linux is still a work in progress, if it wasn't there would be no more kernel updates. As long as there are patches then a system isn't finished. MS even released a feature pack for Vista this week for bluetooth and networking. SP1 improved sleep and startup times. Visual Studio is getting regular feature additions these days, the asp.net ajax stuff is a good example.

When *isn't* something that is still "alive" and used a work in progress? Heck if you shouldn't release work in progress goggle wouldn't have any apps; and putting daily builds/feature based check ins on sourceforge wouldn't happen either.

Disclaimer: I was in the audience; the conference in question was the MVP summit.

So what you are saying is you prefer this...
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/_PROGMAN.GIF

over this?
http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/iconfactoryvista.jpg

Because if you live in anything like this...
http://www.seeing-stars.com/OC/Julie&CalebMansion(400).jpg

I would love to trade you something like this just so you could be happy.
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/NorthIndia/BodhGaya/ShantyHouse.jpg

Also open to trading (ex)girlfriends. And do I have one you will love!

Ya gotta love the wording here:

"Also coming with SP1 but not in the current release candidate, we will also be including updates that deal with two exploits we have seen, which can affect system stability for our customers. The OEM Bios exploit, which involves modifying system files and the BIOS of the motherboard to mimic a type of product activation performed on copies of Windows that are pre-installed by OEMs in the factory. The Grace Timer exploit, which attempts to reset the "grace time" limit between installation and activation to something like the year 2099 in some cases."

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071208/vista-sp1-changelog/

I agree. Horrible article. I looked for new info about what the kernel upgrade had, but he didn't know...? WTF?

That Windows Vista SP1 would have a kernel upgrade has been known for almost since the start of SP1, easily for months at least.

Articles have even already been written about what the new kernel contains. Even by Microsoft, something this guy doesn't seem to even know!

Here's the deal, although in some sort of "prerelease" form:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/kernel-en.doc

And here's a pretty detailed "changelog", although it doesn't separate kernel changes from the rest:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071208/vista-sp1-changelog/