[Razor VinT]

It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word (from various sources who asked not to be named) is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16.

Vista SP1 is more about fixes than new features. In addition to desktop-search modifications, here’s a list of other fixes likely to make it in:

* Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines.
* Improved transfer performance and decreased CPU utilization via support for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA)
* Support for ExFat, the Windows file format for flash memory storage and other consumer devices
* Improvements to BitLocker Drive Encryption to allow not just encryption of the whole Vista volume, but also locally created data volumes
* The ability to boot Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on an x64 machine
* Improved success rate for firewalled MeetingSpace and Remote Assistance connections

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[yanike]

My Vista is up & running and awaiting the beta 1 of SP1.

[Abhi]

Thanks for the news!

[Freka]

Sweet. Waiting anxiously for it.

[HingVista]

Vista SP1 will fix critical ReadyBoost performance bug too.

[Dr. Doom]

any news about the final version?

[idawn]

Freka, on Jul 9 2007, 12:25 PM, said:

Sweet. Waiting anxiously for it.

+1

HingVista, on Jul 9 2007, 05:12 PM, said:

Vista SP1 will fix critical ReadyBoost performance bug too.

Thats a good news

[SharmanNet]

More on SP1:
* Windows Installer 4.1
* Windows Recovery Environment driver loading enhancements
* DHCP NAP fixes/improvements
* .NET Framework 3.0 SP1
* Terminal Services Easy Print client support
* 64-bit OLEDB Provider for ODBC
* Additional Cryptography API functionalities (block cipher modes BCRYPT_CHAIN_MODE_CCM, BCRYPT_CHAIN_MODE_GCM)
* Additional IIS7 Microsoft.Web.Administration API enhancements (i.e. accessing configSection during automated setup)
* Various API modifications/additions
* (Added July 09) EFI boot support on x64 platforms

[yanike]

Vista is running excellent for me now

I'm just waiting on Creative to release a final driver for Audigy 2 so my sound will be like XPs. Besides that all my programs work

I've let go of the old programs I used to use and just accepted the Vista made ones.

Gotta give Microsoft props

[windowstweaker]

Good News

[WhistAler]

Thanks for the news