Microsoft’s first service pack for Vista will apparently increase system performance considerably. Hallelujah.
According to James Bannan at APC Magazine, “there is a very noticeable performance increase…There’s far less hard drive thrashing and in general the system seems much smoother and more responsive.”
The service pack contains mostly bug fixes and enhancements plus a new “Create a Recovery Disc” application that can be used to create a system restore DVD.
The update is still in private beta, but the copious amount of information contained at the following link should be a relatively close approximation of what the general public can expect from SP1 whenever it’s ready for real.
LEAKED: Vista SP1 analysed in-depth [APC Magazine]
Cool… but what about all of us who decided to stick with XP to avoid problems? Where is our XP service pack upgrade?
Jon
I’m running the two patches they released, and they seem to be helping with performance significantly.
XP Final SP, SP3 will be released one month after vista sp1..