Vista SP1 Beta 1 to launch in mid-July, sources say

[bill bolton]

Mary Jo Foley writes on ZDnet that.....

"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."

Read the whole article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559

Cheers,

Bill B.

[Harryc]

It looks there's some speeds hacks on tap for SP1 .. Vista needs that in a big way.

* Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines (Yeah, I know Microsoft said Viista shutdown speed wasn’t an issue. Guess users weren’t so crazy, after all.)
* Improved transfer performance and decreased CPU utilization via support for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA)

[GomJabbar]

Interesting, but unfortunately the RTM version of SP1 still is looking like November 2007 (according to the above article).

[mgo]

It looks there's some speeds hacks on tap for SP1 .. Vista needs that in a big way.

* Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines (Yeah, I know Microsoft said Viista shutdown speed wasn’t an issue. Guess users weren’t so crazy, after all.)
* Improved transfer performance and decreased CPU utilization via support for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA)

So little has been published (that I have found anyway) about using Vista's Robocopy as a good fix for the super-slow copy & paste function. Having Robocopy available (finally!) is one of the Really Nice Things about Vista, I feel.