Engadget: Windows Vista SP1 in Beta
I love RSS. Having news delivered to me, instead of having to go hunt it down is awesome. According to this Engadget article which popped into Google Reader the other day, Microsoft has apparently released Windows Vista's much-needed Service Pack 1 to a select few beta testers.
A number of improvements are noted, including
a much snappier logon experience, a new option in the Disk Defragmenter "allowing you to choose which volumes you would like to defragment," improvements in responsiveness when resuming from Hibernation / Sleep modes, and interestingly enough, slightly improved battery life on a tested laptop.
In addition, there's a number of "reliability packages" being tested which supposedly:
* Increased compatibility with many video drivers. * Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics. * Improved quality of playback for HD DVD and Blu-ray disks on large monitors. * Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista. * Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista. * Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted. * Improves the performance of Vista's Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.
With all these issues finally being addressed, I might just switch my Lenovo X61 back to Vista. Hurry up, Microsoft, and release this.
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Yay for SP1!! I saw this too. How do you put up with the endless flood of news the from engadget feed? I often find it too much of the same news. As to switching to vista - my xp runs like a dream. It does what I tell it. Putting another OS into submission right now doesn't suite my needs, but I wish you the best of luck. By the way, thank you for the comments on my blog! So you know, the song only plays when clicked. I too hate that with a passion.