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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 vs. Shipping Vista

Microsoft just rolled out the first publicly available release candidate for SP1 of Windows Vista, and we snapped it up, eager to see if it's faster than the currently shipping version of Vista. To test its speed, we ran a series of benchmarks on exactly... ...full story at digg

from digg on Thu, Dec 27 2007

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18 Nov 07 visit Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details  »  slashdot babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to...
05 Dec 07 visit Announcing Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) (Nick White/Windows Vista Team Blog)  »  techmeme Announcing Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC)  —  Today we're making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to those RC bits...
05 Feb 08 visit Windows Vista SP1 Go RTM  »  digg Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update...
09 May 09 visit Hands-On Guide to Windows Vista SP2  »  digg With Windows 7 due by October and looking good, and SP1 bringing Vista up to the same performance as XP SP2, who's going to want Vista Service Pack 2? Actually, even Microsoft says this is mainly for Windows Server 2008 (which shares much of the same code...
05 Mar 09 visit Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing  »  the register (uk) World+dog invited to play with near-ready service pack Microsoft’s release candidate of Windows Vista SP2 is now available to anyone keen to dabble with the near final version of the service pack.…

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