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Showing posts with label Service Pack 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Service Pack 1. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2008

Guess what: Vista SP1 worst than Vista

For those of you still running Windows there is no good news: users from all around the world are reporting that the first "major" Windows Vista update is causing more headaches than it is solving.

Users are reporting crashes, drivers problems, increased slowness (especially in copy operations) and incredibly long update times.
Since it first came out, Windows Vista hasn't received a warm welcome from the PC community: clearly things haven't improved with researchers at University of Penn advising not to update and security experts even suggesting Microsoft to "throw Vista away".
On the other side Apple is exploiting this phenomenon with a new commercial and some are speculating that this could be the right time for Apple to license its new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard; I personally don't think that Apple will take such way but Steve Jobs moves have always been hardly predictable (remember the switch to Intel?) and I guess that... only time will tell.


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista brings 551 fixes

This is the complete list of modified modules:

  • 75 Internet Explorer
  • 41 Sleep/Hibernation & Power Management
  • 38 Storage
  • 35 Hardware and Drivers
  • 35 Networking
  • 28 Desktop and Shell
  • 25 Printing & Scanning Technologies
  • 25 .NET Framework, Data Components, Development Tools
  • 24 Setup, Deployment, Backup, and Activation
  • 24 Windows Media Center
  • 23 International/Localization
  • 20 Computer Management, Administration, and Tools
  • 19 Application Compatibility
  • 19 Multimedia
  • 16 Performance and Reliability
  • 16 Startup/Shutdown
  • 13 Time Zone/Daylight Saving Time
  • 13 Windows Media Player and Related Technologies
  • 12 Security
  • 12 Remote Access, VPN
  • 8 IIS and WebDAV issues
  • 7 Wireless Networking
  • 7 Offline Files
  • 6 Windows Mail and Web-based Software
  • 5 Windows Sidebar and SideShow
  • 5 Windows Portable Devices
Obviously Internet Explorer (the Internet exposed module of Windows) is the one with more patches, however I'm glad to see lots of updates for "Sleep/Hibernation & Power Management", "Storage" and "Networking".


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