Microsoft published a list of „improvements” in the upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1. A few „high”lights:

• Significantly improves the speed of moving a directory with many files underneath.
• 25% faster when copying files locally on the same disk on the same machine
• 45% faster when copying files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system
• 50% faster when copying files from a remote SP1 system to a local SP1 system
• Improves responsiveness when doing many kinds of file or media manipulations. For example, with Windows Vista today, copying files after deleting a different set of files can make the copy operation take longer than needed. In SP1, the file copy time is the same as if no files were initially deleted.
• Improves the copy progress estimation when copying files within Windows Explorer to about two seconds.
• Addresses a problem that caused a delay of up to 5 minutes after boot with specific ReadyDrive capable hard drives.
• Improves the effectiveness of a Windows ReadyBoost device in reducing the time to resume from standby and hibernate by increasing the amount of data stored in the ReadyBoost device that can be used during a resume cycle.
• Includes improvements to Windows Superfetch that help to further improve resume times, in many environments.
• Reduces the time it takes to return to the user’s session when using the Photo screensaver, making it comparable to other screensavers.
• In SP1, PC administrators are able to modify the network throttling index value for the MMCSS (Multimedia Class Scheduling Service), allowing them to determine the appropriate balance between network performance and audio/video playback quality.

All that and a lot more after five years of Vista development. Why in hell am I still using it ???

Tagged as: microsoft, rant, sp1, vista, windows | Author: Martin Leyrer
[Samstag, 20080105, 23:37 | permanent link | 0 Kommentar(e)