Feature Comparison: XP SP3 Professional vs. Vista SP1
Call it a sign of desperation, a new attempt to blow some wind in the sails of its latest platform, or a reaction to the proverbial last drop, but Microsoft is delivering its own perspective in terms of the comparison between its two Windows clients sharing the vast majority of the operating system market. Just ahead of the availability cut-off date for Windows XP through the OEM and retail channels, the Redmond company has come out gunning in a move designed to settle once and for good the XP vs. Vista face-off.
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22.5.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows 7 Product Editions: A Comparison
Back in February, I wrote an article, Windows 7 Product Editions, in which I discussed the various SKUs (stock keeping units, or product editions) that Microsoft would provide with its next operating system.
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30.3.2009 See Windows Vista Run with 0 (Zero) RAM
That's right! Windows Vista can run using a total of zero system memory. Well, bear with me, it will all make sense in the end.
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5.10.2007 Crack Available to Install Windows Vista with Only 256MB RAM
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM? vista_nomem.exe is a patch that promises to deliver just that, enabling you to deploy Vista even if you only have 256 MB of memory.
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8.2.2007 256 MB RAM Windows Vista Crack
Want to perform the impossible with Windows Vista and install the operating system on systems with only 256 MB of RAM?
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8.2.2007 32-bit Windows Vista Eats Up RAM
Windows Vista is a system resource hog. There is little doubt as to that. But to go from there to Windows Vista actually eating up RAM... Well, in fact you shouldn't blame Windows Vista for
missing RAM in a certain scenario.
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17.3.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?
A couple weeks ago, my buddy Dwight Silverman asked whether he should be tempted by low, low prices to bump the RAM in his Windows Vista machine from 2GB to 4GB.
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13.8.2007 Windows 7 Drives RAM Ccapacity Explosion; Vista SP2 Usage Rising
Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up to Windows 7's launch on October 22.
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23.9.2009 OS X versus Vista, RAM division
As I noted earlier this week, Ive begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences.
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26.10.2008 Vista RTM tells a RAM graphic tale
WE GOT out hands on Vista RTM and we have a few key points to share with you. First of all, Half Life 2 episode one works great on the Radeon X1950XTX. We wanted to give it a try with G80, EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX but we still don't have any drivers for this card.
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18.11.2006 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests.
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28.11.2007 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Minimum System Requirements? Just Feed 8 GB (!) of RAM into Vista SP1 and then Watch it Fly
Want to talk performance in a comparison between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3?
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1.12.2007 Windows 7 - Maximum Supported RAM is 192 GB
Windows 7 will take the maximum amount of supported system memory well beyond the limits of Windows Vista.
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27.4.2009 Windows 7 Server vs. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Performance Comparison
Its that time again! Microsoft traditionally doesnt allow the benchmarking of its products as long as the software is still in development, but both the Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009.
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18.8.2009 MEMORyAL 4.3 - Unleash Your RAM
MEMORyAL 4.3 is a Indicator control system resources and memory speed.
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4.1.2009 Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM
There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a benchmark parcours and discovered that the old rules still apply: There is no substitute for an adequate amount of system memory. Period.
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13.2.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008Feature Comparison (Windows Vista vs Legacy Windows OS)
The combined features of Windows Vista create the best choice for a mainstream operating system for businesses of all sizes. Whether a corporation
deploys Windows Vista on a single computer or through a worldwide network, Windows Vista increases your computing power while lowering the total cost
of desktop ownership.
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13.01.2008Windows Feature Comparison (XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1)
This white paper helps customers compare Windows Vista advancements with Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Using this comparison, customers can
adjust their expectations for the security, management, deployment, mobility, and productivity of either operating system. For each feature or
capability, each section compares key Windows Vista advancements against Windows XP.
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22.05.2008You Want 4 GB RAM on Your Notebook?
The question of how much RAM you really need is discussed roughly once every two years, and with every launch of a new Windows version. While there
are so-called sweet spots at any given time, factors such as the operating system and popular applications have an influence on the ideal amount of
RAM as well. 512 MB RAM can be considered the minimum memory capacity to execute Windows XP or Windows Vista today. However, anything less than 1 GB
will have a noticeable performance impact, as the operating system will swap data onto your hard drivewhich brings down performance and battery
runtime on notebooks. Given that, we looked at the opposite end of the equation: what would happen if you went for a comfortable 4 GB RAM capacity on
your notebook?
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01.05.2008Windows Feature Comparison - Vista SP1 vs XP SP3
Microsoft has just released a whitepaper, which compares the following features and capabilities of Windows Vista with SP1 & Windows XP with SP3 :
Security, Management, Deployment, Mobility, and Productivity.
This Windows Feature Comparison white paper helps customers compare Windows
Vista® advancements with Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional. Using this comparison, customers can adjust their expectations for the
security, management, deployment, mobility, and productivity of either operating system. For each feature or capability, each section compares key
Windows Vista advancements against Windows XP. Presented in a tabular format, it does make an interesting read.
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23.05.2008Windows Machines with More than 4 GB of RAM Have Limited Shut-Down Options
Windows Vista computers that come equipped with more than 4 GB of system memory have limited shut-down options. Essentially, the Hibernate option is
no longer available on Vista machines that feature in excess of 4 GB of RAM. This scenario affects both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions of Vista,
but at the same time also Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has confirmed that the issue is related to the large quantity of random access
memory.
"This issue occurs because hibernation is disabled on computers that
have more than 4 GB of RAM. Hibernation
requires sufficient disk space to contain the contents of the computer's memory. Performance is poor on a computer that has more than 4 GB of memory
and that has support for hibernation. Therefore, Microsoft has disabled support for hibernation on such computers," the Redmond company
revealed.
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18.03.2008Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
exo.blog: Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests. So, without
further delay, we present our revised results table:
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28.11.2007Windows Vista Security at 180 Days
Windows Vista recently passed
the 180 day mark since it was
made available to business
customers. Just as he did at
the
90-day
mark, Jeff Jones, a
Microsoft Director from the
Trustworthy Computing group
and frequent blogger on
security topics, has done a
comparison of vulnerabilities
discovered in Windows Vista
versus other operating systems
in their first 6 months of
availability.
Windows
Vista holds up well in this
comparison, showing a
significantly improved
vulnerability profile over its
first 180 days of availability
compared to Windows XP and the
other operating systems that
were examined. Its
interesting to note that
Windows Vista is being
subjected to a greater level
of scrutiny than its
predecessor, as tools used by
security researchers have
become significantly more
sophisticated since Windows XP
was released.
Jeffs
"Windows Vista 6-month
Vulnerability Report" is
available
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21.06.2007Linux Comparison: openSUSE
Previous to writing this comparison, I have only ever used Ubuntu and Fedora. Considering Ubuntu's popularity and reputation for being easy to
use, I was expecting openSUSE to be nowhere near as good. From the moment I was greeted with "Welcome" as the LiveCD booted, I knew I was going to
be proven wrong. View: Part 1 of "Linux Comparison" - Ubuntu An install for all. The installation was quick and painless. The installer correctly
detected the existing Linux partitions, and also proposed that I did not format my home partition (for the uninitiated, this is more or less the "My
Documents" of Linux).
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04.12.2008Bump your notebook to 2GB of RAM for $26.99 after rebate
If you bought a budget-level notebook within the past year, chances are good it came with Windows Vista and 1GB of RAM--a poor combination to say the
least. Vista needs at least 2GB to operate efficiently, especially on notebooks with integrated graphics processors (which borrow RAM from the rest of
the system).
Newegg.com has a
Transcend 2GB PC2 5300
notebook memory module for $26.99 (after a $10 mail-in rebate). Shipping will run you $4.99.
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11.01.2008Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a
review of 3 Windows Vista
capable ReadyBoost USB
sticks.
We have
been running a number of
Windows ReadyBoost tests on
various USB Drive Sticks that
have come out recently. Not
only do we have a list of
those that work, and those
that don't! We have also
started to go in-depth with
some of them. ReadyBoost is
designed to improve small
random I/O for people who lack
the expansion slots, money,
and or technical expertise to
add additional RAM. This
isn't a replacement for RAM
upgrades; it's simply the
chance to speed up your Vista
machine very slightly and very
easily.
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15.01.2007WinXP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1 Again
exo.blog has at
the request of their members re-run
the
original OfficeBench test, this time with 2GB of RAM in the test system. Unfortunately the outcome is unchanged bar a 4% improvement on the
previous score. One can argue that Windows XP system requirements are quite a bit lower than its successor, and thats probably got a lot to do with
it. This, coupled with claims that Vista SP1
will
not improve on performance but will in fact be all about stability and reliability instead, doesn't offer much hope for those people on older
systems.
Make of it what you will, I personally don't have performance issues at all. I use Vista with 2GB of RAM and I have a Sandisk
2GB memory stick that is used for the "Ready Boost" feature, maybe they should re-run the test with that scenario.
Chris Pirillo
had this to say on all those negative articles
surrounding Windows Vista, enjoy!
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28.11.2007RAM use rises thanks to Vista, falling prices
Microsoft's memory-hungry
Vista operating system --
along with falling dynamic RAM
prices -- is boosting
semiconductor sales.
The Semiconductor Industry
Association (SIA) reported
this week that worldwide sales
of semiconductors hit $20.3
billion in May -- 2.4% higher
than sales of $19.8 billion in
the same month a year ago.
The San Jose-based
trade association, citing
figures from one of its
members, Micron Technology
Inc., said the average amount
of DRAM installed in PCs has
increase from 772MB last year
to 1,180MB this year. ..
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05.07.2007Hidden Vista tools
If Sven Hallauer ever has a moment to reflect in his Redmond office, he can feel quietly pleased with himself.
As the release
manager for Vista, he had overall responsibility during the development period for the success of the Most Secure Windows Ever project.
For Hallauer, however, the flexibility of the new operating system is just as important as the security features. In particular, Vista is
equipped with far better admin tools than previous versions. Previously, administrators were forced to add tools from Resource Kits, but now Vista
comes with a lot of tools already on board, as well explain later.
You can tell just by looking at the increased minimum hardware
requirements that theres a lot more in the new version of Windows. It used to be possible to keep an installation of Windows 95 under 200MB, but Vista
requires 40 times more hard disk space. Even in comparison to Windows XP, Vista needs five times more space.
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27.09.2007Dell users face heavy premium for Vista
Dells customers are paying a
heavy premium for personal
computers running Microsofts
Vista, according to data
compiled by Techworld.
Last weeks
LinuxWorld event saw a number
of open source desktop
announcements, including Dell
announcing it was selling its
first Linux-based PCs outside
the US, with the Ubuntu-based
Inspiron 530n desktop, and the
Inspiron 6400n notebook now
available in the UK, France
and Germany.
This step has enabled a
comparison of the typical cost
of a machine running Vista,
compared with the same machine
running an open source
operating system such as
Ubuntu.
The Dell Inspiron 530(n)
desktop comes with an Intel
Dual Core E2140 (1.6GHz)
processor, plus 512Mb of RAM,
a 160Gb hard drive, and a 19
inch panel. When the Inspiron
530 desktop is used as the
benchmark machine, Dell
customers were found to be
paying on average an 18%
premium in the UK for a
machine running Vista,
compared to the same speced
machine running Ubuntu. In the
United States, Dell users are
paying a 20% premium to use
Vista on the same specified
machine.
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13.08.2007Windows 7 vs Windows Vista: The UAC Benchmark
One of the most hated features of Windows Vista is the
User Account
Control, or UAC in short. Many people found it annoying and chose to
disable it right away, even if this meant exposing their system to
additional security threats. In Windows 7, Microsoft has seriously changed this feature. Now users have a lot more control over it and how it works
and it should provide a better user experience. To see how much improvement this means in numbers, I have run a comparison between the default Windows
Vista and Windows 7 UAC levels. Let's see which one wins and why.
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05.08.2009Crysis Hardware Specs Revealed. Ouch.
Crysis? Gorgeous! Crysis hardware requirements? Intimidating. No one was expecting Crysis to run on their 6-year old Gateway POS9001, but the game's
final specs are, in a word, heftymaybe a tad heftier than you had imagined. PC gamers looking to spec out their new hardware set up will be thrilled
to read that Crytek has revealed the final hardware requirements for its hyper-pretty first person shooter, set to launch on November 13.
The minimum and required configurations are after the jump. Vista gamers, brace yourselves.
Minimum System
Requirements:
OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster * (Vista)
Memory -
1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card - 256MB **
Hard Drive - 12GB
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended System Requirements:
OS - Windows XP / Vista
Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory - 2GB
RAM
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz for Vista)
or faster, Intel Core 2GHz (2.2GHz for Vista) or faster, and other similar CPUs.
** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT +
or similar GPUs. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and
sound card drivers may be required.
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10.10.2007Windows 7: Not only faster than Vista, XP too
Instead of using benchmarking programs, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet put together 23 real-world scenarios to see which operating system would be
the quickest to complete all of the tasks.
He tested the 32-bit versions of Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400, Windows Vista SP1,
and Windows XP SP3. Two separate test machines were used:
An AMD Phenom 9700 2.4GHz system fitted with an ATI Radeon 3850 and 4GB of RAM
An Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz fitted with an NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and 1GB of RAM
Neither of these computers is top of the
line, but Windows 7 managed to outperform both Vista and XP on both. Kingsley gave a 1 to the operating system that finished each test first, a 2 for
second place, and a 3 for third. Windows 7 scored 25 points on both systems, placing first in 21 tests, and second in two other ones. On the AMD
system, XP scored 61 points and Vista scored 52, while on the Intel system, XP scored 56 points and Vista scored 57.
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03.01.2009Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
There are several
relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide we will put special emphasis on the hard drive, processor and RAM, taking you
through a variety of settings to optimally configure these and hopefully end up with an overall smoother running system.
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23.10.2007New RAM technology could drive portables, desktops
German engineers and physicists have made a prototype of an advanced RAM system that nears the theoretical speed limit for the process.
According to a
NewScientistTech report, this technology known as Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) is
claimed to be faster and more efficient then RAM currentlyavailable. Some companies speculate the capabilities and low power consumption of MRAM may
push the mobile market in the years to come. So far, however, the technology is in experimental stages at the moment, and is not available for
distribution.
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14.08.2008Vista file copying showdown: RTM vs SP1
Long Zheng: Copying files is the Achilles heel of Windows Vista, calculating time remaining the blue screen of death equivalent. If anyone tells
you Windows Vista isnt slow at copying files, then they obviously havent downloaded any DVDrips and tried to move it onto another computer. It was
anticipated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 would fix this problem amongst other things.
As announced this week, the first beta
build of SP1 (6001.16659) has been released on Microsoft Connect. The initial reaction from most tester has been largely positive noting improvements
in file operations such as moving, copying and deleting files. However I havent seen anyone post any benchmarks or evidence to prove it is indeed
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