New official SP1 info!

[Jonathan]

Daily Tech has a nice article about the new official information from Microsoft regarding Vista SP1.  There's some interesting things in there.  Like the fact that SP1 is a 1 GB download!    It also will require a lot of hard drive space for swap space during the install.

Take a look.

Vista Service Pack one

[mark]

Reliability
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Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
Improved Windows Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
Increased reliability and performance of Windows Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.

Performance
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Improves the time to become active from Hibernate and Resume modes.
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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.
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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.

WHO HOO!!!

[Jonathan]

I think it's going to help Vista a lot.  Don't get me wrong I already use Vista and like it a lot, but like all new OS's it does have some issues.  I still like how it runs more than XP in a lot of ways.

[ailema]

wow great features and specs