Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available of what it’s referring to as “Vista Service Pack 1 Preview”.
On July 17, Microsoft made available to preselected testers a beta of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) designed to coincide with the Vista SP1 Preview testers said. The refreshed WDK code is on the Microsoft Connect site for download.
Seems the Vista SP1 is expected in November 2007.
Vista SP1 — an update which Microsoft has done its best to make its officials wouldn’t discuss — is expected to include a number of performance and reliability improvements.
SP1 is expected to be more about fixes than features.
- Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines
- Improved transfer performance and decreased CPU utilization via support for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA)
- Support for ExFat, the Windows file format for flash memory storage and other consumer devices
- Improvements to BitLocker Drive Encryption to allow not just encryption of the whole Vista volume, but also locally created data volumes
- The ability to boot Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on an x64 machine
- Improved success rate for firewalled MeetingSpace and Remote Assistance connections
http://www.vistasp1.net/
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eravi