Vista Service pack 1 - update

[NoScream~SPARTA~]

 

 

As (Vista) service pack 1 gets closer (mid march for manual download & April for Automated downloads),

this thread will track the issues it should/ will solve and the problems it may create inc. incompatibilities

with other manufacturer programs.

 

Keep track of events.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Technet subscribers.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...a/bb738089.aspx

 

Things to know before you download Windows Vista SP1

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...a/bb968859.aspx

 

 

Windows Vista SP1 Blocks Antivirus Programs

 

The list of security products includes Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.1, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, and BitDefender 10.

 

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/sho...cleID=206801120

 

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Revealed

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_sp1.asp

 

from the above link......

 

Device compatibility is up dramatically, from a bit over 40,000 compatible devices to just under 80,000 devices today with SP1. The number of logoed devices--devices that are certified by Microsoft to work properly with Vista--is also up dramatically, from about 2000 at launch to over 17,000 today. Microsoft director Chris Flores pointed out to me that the improvements to Vista's drivers aren't limited to sheer numbers, either: Improvements to video, audio, and other drivers have actually improved the battery life on laptops from several major PC makers by an average of 7 percent.

 

Application compatibility, too, improves significantly with SP1. While this area includes consumer-oriented applications, incompatible enterprise applications were the big deployment blockers over the past year. In the past year, Microsoft and its partners have remediated over 150 enterprise application blockers: These are applications that previously prevented one or more corporations from upgrading to Vista.

 

Reliability is up in Vista SP1, too, Microsoft says. Flores described the company's telemetry data, which allows it to analyze various system disruptions in Vista, including such things as non-responding applications, application hangs and crashes, and system crashes. Compared to the release version of Vista, SP1 more than doubled the mean number of hours between disruptions, from about 17 hours to about 34 hours.

 

File copy improvements. One of the biggest complaints users have had with Windows Vista concerns file copy operations, both locally on a single PC and over networks. Microsoft isolated the cause of these and provides the fixes in SP1. A number of areas are affected, including the performance of file copy operations and system responsiveness during these operations. According to the latest data, file copy operations are 44 to 71 percent faster with SP1 than they were under the original version of Vista. Microsoft has also improved the speed at which Vista resumes from Sleep or Hibernation in SP1.

 

Security is another oft-discussed aspect of Vista, and Microsoft points to a number of recent studies of the system compared to rival OSes and its own predecessor, Windows XP. "Users are far less likely to be infected with malware or spyware on Vista," Flores told me. "We're really happy how Vista stacks up, security-wise." One interesting item that came up during the development of SP1: The highly-criticized User Account Control (UAC) feature in Vista only needed to be changed in two small ways for SP1 because Microsoft's data shows that the majority of consumer sessions don't require any UAC prompts at all after the first 30 days of use.

[MedicSN6]

Some great information Viii. Thanks for posting it.

 

 

Is anyone giving reasons to NOT install this? If yes, what are those reasons?

[FirstRock_EBDA]

Yes. I am not going to this because I'm scared

[custard~SPARTA~]

Yes. I am not going to this because I'm scared

 

Too funny first