Vista SP1 Guides for IT Professionals Released 270
wilkinism writes "Microsoft released several detailed documents explaining just about everything you ever wanted to know about Vista SP1. Highlights include a Deployment Guide, list of included hotfixes, and a 17-page list of 'Notable Changes'. In reviewing the Notable Changes document, it seems the company focused on improving reliability & performance in really specific scenarios, so it's no wonder that most reviewers are reporting no noticeable gains."
Specific scenarios? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think those two (from a quick glance at the doc) are very uncommon...
Re:Failed to include the upgrade to Ubuntu button (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Specific scenarios? (Score:3, Insightful)
You don't actually physically move the files & directories on disk. You just change a few index entries.
This isn't bleeding edge stuff - I'm sure this was done more than 20 years ago.
Re:Specific scenarios? (Score:3, Insightful)
What would be interesting is if they implemented a faster "copy directory on same disk" that involved hard links and copy-on-demand when files change. (Something like what Sun's ZFS)
Re:Support Blender and Ogre3D! (Score:3, Insightful)
Gimp is a peice of shit folks. Lets be real.
Re:This is the sensible discussion (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Failed to include the upgrade to Ubuntu button (Score:2, Insightful)
Think of it as a counterbalance, a reaction to Microsoft's need to promote Vista at every opportunity and the fact that they can make it widespread regardless of its quality. Why blame the reaction instead of the primary cause?
Vista now reports the actual amount of RAM install (Score:3, Insightful)
USE SYNCTOY!!!!!! by MS too (Score:3, Insightful)
It does all you want, the way you want it, its what should be in the OS by default!!!
Im sure explorer has 15 years of legacy code and exceptions and 100 levels of tree decisions, its probly why they
dont want to change too much, especially if its bad code thats been cleaned up.
Re:Specific scenarios? (Score:3, Insightful)
Vista (or Windows XP w/ Resource Kit) already includes a robust copy tool
Which makes you wonder why such a tool is necessary in the first place. Why can't normal Explorer copy operations be robust?