Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Oct 2008 16:34 UTC
Since its release, the steady stream of updates have made Windows Vista noticeably less annoying to use. The biggest stride forward was the release of the operating system's first service pack, back in March of this year. Neowin.net now claims that the second service pack is on its way, with the first beta being dropped on testers in the coming four weeks.
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RE: Microsoft Windows Service Packs have new features :)
by PlatformAgnostic on Wed 22nd Oct 2008 06:07
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One thing about Microsoft is that they've done a lot with introducing new features in Service Packs.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 included Network Access Protection and Dead Gateway Detection (ported from Windows Server 2003). It also has a new RDP client (6.1) which was silently introduced that did away with the /console command line switch in favor of /admin .
My source is:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/7/687484ed-8174-496d-8db...
Windows XP Service Pack 2 was literally another operating system, and it is what Microsoft should have released in the first place.
Vista Service Pack 1 included the ability to boot off of EFI-equipped x86-64 machines (which the Itanium versions of Windows always had), and a lot of under the hood improvements (exFAT, SD Advanced DMA, Direct3D 10.1).
Even the Exchange service packs introduce new features (Direct Push Email came in Exchange 2003 SP2).
Say what you want about their products, however, they do introduce new features with each SP, and sometimes even re-do the OS so much that its literally a new OS when you're done (XP Service Pack 2, Vista SP1, NT 4.0 Service Packs 3, 5, and 6a).