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Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the preview-of-the-preview dept.

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.'"

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  1. wow... they are getting desperate... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Troll

    fancy previewing the service pack... are they really that worried about people drifting off to greener pastures or sticking with XP

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  2. Re:90 seconds considered good? by imbaczek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately Ubuntu guys screwed up bigtime in a much more severe way. See the laptop hard drive bug.

  3. Re:Windows XP SP3 please by JebusIsLord · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh shut up. Name another software vendor still supporting and releasing updates for a 6-year-old operating system.

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  4. Re:SP or New OS? by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Troll
    You could, but you didn't. I'm confused, Twitter, why wouldn't you take a chance to rip into "M$"?

    Hrm, lack of substance in a twitter comment, shouldn't really be surprised.

  5. Hackintosh by Nico3d3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck you big time Microsoft, I'm much more happy with my hackintosh than any crappy M$ system. Thanks, mister Jobs for bringing the OS X system to the X86 world and thanks to all the hackers who made it possible to install it on an unmodified standard pc.