Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
Windows Vista SP1 beta due in September, final release in 2008
by Brad Linder Aug 29th 2007 at 3:00PM
So what's included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1? Microsoft has published a white paper on that topic, and here are a few highlights:
- All of the updates that had been previously offered through Windows Update
- Improved reliability and compatibility with newer graphics cards
- Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop
- Improved reliability of systems that were updated from Windows XP to Vista
- Improved printer driver compatibility
- Increased reliability and performance when entering and returning from sleep mode
- Includes APIs by which third party security and malicious software detection applications can work with kernal patch protection on x64 versions of Vista
- Improves the security of running RemoteApp programs and desktops by allowing Remote Desktop Protocol files to be signed
- Enhances BitLocker Drive Encryption to offer an additional multifactor authentication method that combines a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module with a startup key stored on a USB storage device and a user-generated PIN
- Faster copying and extracting of files
- Improves the time to become active from Hibernate and Resume modes.
- Reduces Internet Explorer 7 CPU utilization and speeds up JavaScript parsing
- Improves battery life by not redrawing the screen as often on certain computers
- Support for exFAT file system which will be used in forthcoming flash memory storage devices
- Support for Secure Digital Advanced Direct Memory Acces
- Support for Direct3D 10.1
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
