Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 details are finaly available

Microsoft finally communicated on the Service Pack 1 of Vista, and it was more than time.

August 30, 2007 04:40 PM

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The goal of this Vista Service Pack 1 is to correct the mistakes of youth and the principal problems gone up with the ears of Microsoft through the forums, the testers or even still thanks to the tool of report/ratio of errors.

Let us start with the most important question: when this SP1 will be available? The answer is clear: first quarter 2008. Claire, but not really as specifies as one would have wished. Let us detail however ahead the contents of this very awaited update.

The Windows Vista SP1 will be focused on three axes: quality, administration and the support of the new materials and standards. The first point, quality, breaks up itself into three chapters: performances, safety and reliability.

Here details on these three chapters:

Performances:

• Improvement the speed of copy and extraction of the files
• Reduction of time necessary to the machine to wake up of a Day before or a Hibernation
• Improvement of the performances of the machines connected to a field when they work apart from this field
• Improvement of the performances of Internet Explorer 7: reduction of the use of the processor and acceleration of the treatment of the JavaScript
• Improvement of the autonomy of the portable computers by reducing the use of the processor, by asking a less frequent cooling of the windows
• Correction of a bug which can involve a latency of ten seconds when the user supports on CTRL +ALT + SUPPR
• Correction of a problem slowing down the system when a user traverses the contents divided in network of other machines

Safety:

• The editors of solutions of safety will profit from a protected access to the Center of safety, to avoid for example with malevolent software cutting through a path towards this interface
• The API ones which gives access PatchGuard under editions 64 bits will be improved to simplify the life of the editors of solution of safety
• Improvement of the safety of the applications and RemoteApp Bureaux while allowing the files using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to be signed
• A new pseudo-random generator of numbers will be added to the list of those present and will use Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC)
• Improvement of BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) in order to offer an authentification using of the multiple factors: a key protected by TPM, a key stored on an external peripheral (key USB), and a personal number of identification (PINE)

Reliability:

• Improvement of reliability and compatibility with the new graphics boards
• Improvement of reliability when an external screen is connected on a portable computer
• Improvement of reliability for certain uses in network
• Improvement of reliability for the systems updated since Windows XP
• Improvement of compatibility with very many printers
• Improvement of reliability during the awakening of a mode Takes care or Hibernation

On the level of the administration, one will be able to count on the following points:

• BitLocker will be able to quantify other discs that C, with the choice of the user (all local discs for example)
• Corrections of problems during the impression from stations using the Terminal Services
• The tool for diagnosis network will be able from now on to help the user to solve problems of division network
• The administrators of a machine will be able to select which discs will be defragments, in opposition to the current situation where all the discs are defragments

Support of the new materials and standards:

• Support of the using filing system exFAT for all the peripherals of the memory Flash
• Support of Direct Memory Access (DMA) for the card readers SD, in order to accelerate the transfers and to reduce the use of the processor
• The support of the EFI for the machines 64 bits
• DirectX 10.1
• Support of Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will contain well the core of Windows Server 2008, on which we will have soon new details. The update will not be an upheaval for the operating system like had been to it the SP2 of Windows XP. It would be rather comparable with the SP1 of this same system or the SP4 of Windows 2000: certain parts are changed and mechanics is oiled overall.

The size of this Pack Service should be reasonable, Microsoft counting indeed on approximately 50 MB. One speaks here on the other hand about the version obtained via Windows Update, because the version known as “stand-alone” and which contains all the settings the updates in all the languages should weigh the trifle of 1GB. A size which will have another repercussion, namely the place necessary for the extraction of the files and the installation itself: 7 GB for a system 32 bits, 12 GB for a system 64 bits. But the very great majority of the installations will be done with Windows Update, which will be infinitely faster.

Beta public should be born in the next few weeks according to Microsoft. The interested parties can consult this document on the Service Pack 1.

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