Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
Windows Vista SP1 beta due in September, final release in 2008
by Brad Linder Aug 29th 2007
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
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