Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is comming in March 18

According to the site Tech ARP, Microsoft chose the date of March 18 to launch the first wave of installation of Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista in the cottages. At least, the cottages countries using five languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese. At that time, however, the facility will not be automatically offered in Windows Update.

About three weeks later, on April 9, a second wave of installations will be launched, and it will target systems using Chinese (simplified, traditional Hong Kong), Korean and Portuguese (Brazilian). It was not until April 18 for Windows Update proposes to automatically install the service pack, with a number of languages based on the first two waves.

There would thus be a great difference between March 18 and April 18. In the first case, the updated manual and will be voluntary. It will go to the Microsoft site to go look Service Pack 1 which will be available in its full form and who takes particular all patches released since the advent of Vista on Jan. 30, 2007. On April 18, the automatic version is available, but Windows Update will not propose that what is needed is calculated by deducting the total all updates already installed. Microsoft talking about 65 to 70 MB downloads for a system always up to date.

As a reminder, here is the list of improvements and changes made by Service Pack 1 of Vista:

Support equipment:

UEFI support for the new 64-bit editions, which allows Vista to start on hard disks, formatted using the GPT (GUID Partition Table), including used by the Mac
Support for network booting EFI for 64-bit editions
Support DirectX 10.1
Support for exFat
Support for the SD Advanced DMA (ADMA)
Adding icons for Blu-ray and HD-DVD
New MPEG-2 decoder, which improves the DVD playback on machines a little older and supports protected content to the Media Center connected to cable services
Ability to create a disk repair from the Administrative Tools, capable of starting on machines equipped with BIOS and EFI

Reliability:

Fixed many bugs and problems that altered the user experience, especially with the calendar, Windows Media Player and a number of pilots
Prevention of data loss during the ejection of storage devices formatted in NTFS
Improving the reliability of connections on IPv6 IPSec
Fixes a problem that sometimes allowed a pilot to pause without completing the transmission of data which he handled
Improved WiFi connections ad-hoc (from computer to computer)
Improved connections peer-to-peer between two machines separated by firewalls
Improving the backup solution allowing the integration of EFS encrypted files
The Startup Repair Tool can now repair deficient system starts when some important files unaccounted for

Performance and power consumption:

Best performance for consultation network file
Improved consumption by allowing the processor to remain in a state of sleep when the display does not change and that the situation permits
Best performance when creating or extracting Zip files
Significant improvement in performance during the trip of a file containing a large number of files
Best performance during transfers using BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service)
Best performance for copies of files in the following cases:
Copying files on the same disk and on the same machine: 25%
Copying files from the network for a non-Vista system to a system Vista SP1: 45%
Copying files from the network of a system Vista SP1 to another system Vista SP1: 50%
General improvement of responsiveness when handling files
Correction estimated waiting times when copying files
Improvement of approximately 50% of the time waiting for the display of large images
Performance improvements of Internet Explorer 7 for reading and the implementation of JScript code
Fixed a problem that could create a waiting time of five minutes sometimes with some discs ReadyDrive
Improving the effectiveness of the technology ReadyBoost
Overall improvement of the effectiveness of SuperFetch
Reduction of the time of extinction of the machine
Improved time clock for some USB hubs about 18%
Correction of a large number of performance problems associated with printers

Security:

Inclusion of all security patches released so far
The SP1 includes the results of a new round of development called Secure Development Lifecycle, which should prevent the particular vulnerabilities reappear in other forms
Arrangements to allow security companies to work more effectively with PatchGuard on 64-bit editions
Improvements to Data Execution Protection (DEP)
Improved safety cable networks using a single rather than be interviewed twice, in the local and remote
BitLocker improvements, particularly by allowing us to choose other disks and partitions as C:

New standards and technologies

Support new strong encryption algorithms: IPsec. SHA-256, AES-GCM, AES-GMAC for ESP and AH, ECDSA, SHA-256, and SHA-384 for IKE and AuthIP
Adding a number generator pseudo-random NIST SP 800-90 Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC)
Added support of the last draft of 802.11n

Administration and management:

Users can now choose which drives are defragmented
The diagnostic networks can now deal with the problems of file shares

Configuration and deployment:

Possibility to easily deploy SP1 on a large network, which contributes to much weight important update
"Hot patching Support, which allows updating of system components while they are still used
A DVD of Vista SP1 64-bit can now be installed in upgrading from a 32-bit system
General improvement of the speed of installation updates
Overall improvement of the reliability of installing updates
Improved uninstall process updates

General improvements:

Establishment of a selector local search engine
The 32 bit systems now show the true amount of RAM installed on the system and not only the quantity available to the system
The number of confirmations UAC passes 4 to 1 when you create or rename directories in a protected location
The user is now better guided to the activation process, and many explanations are provided
The SP1 contains updates that will prevent emulations BIOS OEMs and cracks based on the grace period activation function

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