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babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds. Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.'"
I posted this question to Ask Slashdot, hoping for a good selection of answers and viewpoints, however the story has not appeared on the Slashdot front page yet, and I am short on time, so I will ask here now.
I am staying with German relatives, and one of them has a female friend that I would very much like to have sex with. Being German, I think the shortest route to a guaranteed fucking is via her sense of humour. So, in the toilet this morning I shitted and made an appalling, grotesque odour, and thought of warning the other people in the house about the smell I had made by joking 'ich habe Zyklon B in der toilet gemacht'. Would this be a wise thing to say, or would the humour be taken as being insensitive?
The system in this anecdote was a high-end, AMD-based notebook. I can't remember the exact spec's (is that a valid contraction? "specs" just seems so dirty).
I opened 27 Internet Explorer windows with msn.com inside, resized them all randomly, and then jammed away at the keyboard -- rapidly mashing the keys responsible for Flip3D! In short order, Windows Explorer crashed and the snazzy new error reporting system appeared.
I got a new Dell 630 laptop. 1.8 GHz 7100 Core 2 Duo, which same as reference system. XP is ready to go in 40 secs from a cold start. My disk drive is 5400 rpm. I still remember the good experience of going from Win 98 to XP. From what I've read XP is happy with 512M memory whereas Vista needs at least 1G minimum. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft have enough pride in their software to do thing right? Latest version of Excel has math error. What more can I say.
Apple must be seriously considering porting Leopard to PCs, if you were buying a new PC which would you prefer Vista ready or Leopard ready?
OS X goes from sleep to functional in less than 3 seconds. I goes from sleep to "looks like its awake" instantly.
Ten Myths of Leopard: 10 Leopard is a Vista Knockoff!
"Vista is a not an epic disaster because of:
1. Performance.
2. Security." - by aldheorte (162967) on Sunday November 18, @02:50PM (#21399733) -----
Take a peek @ this information, & get even MORE out of VISTA (on both fronts noted/quoted above):
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=e69d112292ea1a83aaaa81f58f47e5da&p=500261#post500261
The principals there can not only speed up performance, and security - & those principals noted still apply in VISTA as well largely in a good 95% of them).
APK
P.S.=> From that which I quote from you, well, I agree on the SECURITY end (VISTA's got some good ideas there you DON'T see, like ASR (address space randomization) for executables for instance, & a more protected mode than XP has for IE7 (even more than the -extoff one in XP, & even more than Windows Server 2003's versions of IE have in secured mode))
However, I can't agree on the performance part (mainly, & certainly not without feeding the VISTA OS in its default setup that is, a lot more RAM than XP needs for instance, & more than Windows Server 2003 in its defaults of workstation/pro on install).
The new networking stuff in VISTA is touchy I have found (networking VISTA to VISTA oddly enough, but not VISTA to XP for instance) & also some drivers for Logitech equipment (vidcams - I saw once where they don't do their video WITH sound, without init. sound first & THEN, video functions of the camera on VISTA (this is a fault of Logitech though is my guess)...
Anyhow, room for improvement exists. It's got 1 thing going for it I like - That's that VISTA is built off the Windows Server 2003 codebase foundations, & they put ASRL onto that (this is stability & security related).
I don't like the DRM stuff either... who does, other than the RIAA etc.? The filecopying performance issues when networking or doig multimedia iirc, are another I hear tell about, & hopefully this patch SP1 DOES fix that as stated... apk