Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Feb 2008 17:44 UTC
eWeek takes a look at Vista's first service pack. "On the whole, Vista Service Pack 1, which becomes generally available in mid-March, is a fairly staid update with very little in the way of new features or cosmetic changes. SP1 consists of a rollup of Vista's first year of security and bug fixes, new support for a handful of emerging hardware and software standards, and an update to Vista's kernel and core systems that brings the operating system in line with Windows Server 2008, which was also recently released to manufacturing. SP1 also features a handful of performance improvements around file copy operations, which I was able to confirm during my tests in our lab." Concerning the file copy operations, Mark Russinovich has a detailed post about that one.
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Member since:2005-07-24
My guess is that the $100M is primarily being used to payoff some creditors - possibly for amounts quite a bit smaller than was owed
I have not read the article. And I was not aware of this issue. But are we talking about the thing that rsync has been getting right, with huge performance *increases* rather than performance *decreases* for years and years?
Gee, I wish Microsoft would stop chasing our tail lights and just partake of the innovative, high quality software that we make available under such *very* generous licensing terms.
Go figure...
Edited 2008-02-14 23:03 UTC
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i am not sure how many people know about it, but the bulk of the slowness in file copying comes from the remote differential feature computing differences between the source and destination. Now I am no fan of Vista, and I love the bashing, but disabling this feature SIGNIFICANTLY increases copy speed to a point where the difference is minimal.
Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows features on and off > (wait for it wait for it waitfor it > Uncheck "Remote Differential Compression"
You should see a somewhat astounding difference in transfer speeds. Hope this helps out some people.