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images/news/vista.jpgMicrosoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it’s referring to as “Vista Service Pack 1 Preview,” according to sources close to the company.
Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers with access to the Vista SP1 Preview beta code later this week, possibly on July 19, the day the company will announce its fiscal 2007 earnings, sources said.
A certain select few testers already have been working with earlier versions of the Vista SP1 code, sources said. This week’s beta of SP1 Preview will be opened up to more testers and will be a refresh, sources said.
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, according to those claiming to be in the know. Among the expected list of Vista SP1 update:
* 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
Z/Dnet
Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers with access to the Vista SP1 Preview beta code later this week, possibly on July 19, the day the company will announce its fiscal 2007 earnings, sources said.
A certain select few testers already have been working with earlier versions of the Vista SP1 code, sources said. This week’s beta of SP1 Preview will be opened up to more testers and will be a refresh, sources said.
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, according to those claiming to be in the know. Among the expected list of Vista SP1 update:
* 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
Z/Dnet
