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Changes specific to Windows 7
Additional support for communication with third-party federation services
Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.
Improved HDMI audio device performance
A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between computers running Windows 7 and HDMI audio devices can be lost after system reboots. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.
Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents
Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.
Changes common to both client and server platforms
Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality
SP1 changes the behavior of the “Restore previous folders at logon” function available in the Folder Options Explorer dialog. Prior to SP1, previous folders would be restored in a cascaded position based on the location of the most recently active folder. That behavior changes in SP1 so that all folders are restored to their previous positions.
Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec
Support for additional identification types has been added to the Identification field in the IKEv2 authentication protocol. This allows for a variety of additional forms of identification (such as E-mail ID or Certificate Subject) to be used when performing authentication using the IKEv2 protocol.
Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
There has always been a growing need for ever more computing power and as usage models change, processors instruction set architectures evolve to support these growing demands. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) is a 256 bit instruction set extension for processors. AVX is designed to allow for improved performance for applications that are floating point intensive. Support for AVX is a part of SP1 to allow applications to fully utilize the new instruction set and register extensions.
Conclusion
Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 represents Microsoft’s continuing commitment to quality. While many of the updates contained in SP1 are available as individual downloads, the integration of these updates in SP1 enhances the ease of deployment for IT administrators. This functionality, coupled with advanced new virtualization features such as Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX, demonstrates how SP1 will provide the ongoing improvements that customers and organizations alike have grown to expect from Microsoft.
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As usual, I'll wait a wee while after the official release to let others suffer any pain and report back :p
 
Windows 7 is the first MS OS that actually worked pretty decently out of the box. Once I turned off all that visual rubbish, it actually looked and felt OK too
 
Richard King said:
Windows 7 is the first MS OS that actually worked pretty decently out of the box. Once I turned off all that visual rubbish, it actually looked and felt OK too
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No it isn't. 95, 98, 2000 and XP were all fine out of the box. In fact the only truly bad MS OSs I can think of were ME and Vista.
 
trencheel303 said:
You blown anything up yet Neil.
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nope.. got that poxy "evaluation" message on my desktop though lol

Islander said:
No it isn't. 95, 98, 2000 and XP were all fine out of the box. In fact the only truly bad MS OSs I can think of were ME
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agreed.

and Vista.
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disagreed. vistas main fallbacks were driver support from hardware vendors in the early days and pc vendors installing it on minimal spec machines. on a decent machine with the correct drivers it was fine.
 
IMO Windows 2000 was NOT actually particularly usable out of the box, one reason being for that is the "Messenger" service was enabled by default. A good amount of people back in its heyday were still on dialup connections, meaning a direct connection into the net and would result in spam being sent to the desktop due to that service running. It was disabled in XP if I remember correctly. Although 2000 wasn't as picky as NT 4 when it came to device drivers, it introduced a lot of stuff and junk that needn't be there, and I'd say it wasn't as stable and resistant to problems as XP. The user interface is also horrible and the web page sidebar actually made it render explorer windows a hair slower than XP did... yeah. I can't use Windows 2000 first without "sorting" it, but it is a good OS. Oh, and it also boots slower than XP...
 
neil_g said:
disagreed. vistas main fallbacks were driver support from hardware vendors in the early days and pc vendors installing it on minimal spec machines. on a decent machine with the correct drivers it was fine.
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There were major issues out of the box though. File copy to name one, networking to name another. It took a service pack to sort these out so 'out of the box' it wasn't that great at all. It's also a tad resource hungry...
 
trencheel303 said:
IMO Windows 2000 was NOT actually particularly usable out of the box, one reason being for that is the "Messenger" service was enabled by default. A good amount of people back in its heyday were still on dialup connections, meaning a direct connection into the net and would result in spam being sent to the desktop due to that service running. It was disabled in XP if I remember correctly. Although 2000 wasn't as picky as NT 4 when it came to device drivers, it introduced a lot of stuff and junk that needn't be there, and I'd say it wasn't as stable and resistant to problems as XP. The user interface is also horrible and the web page sidebar actually made it render explorer windows a hair slower than XP did... yeah. I can't use Windows 2000 first without "sorting" it, but it is a good OS. Oh, and it also boots slower than XP...
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The Windows messenger service became an issue after the product was released and it was a fairly simple task to stop it. It didn't detract from the functionality of the OS per se. I ran it for ages and never encountered any serious instability problems either at home or in a large multiuser environment. The 'classic' user interface was just dandy - in fact I always set XP to classic preferring it over the fluff that MS pushed out as a desktop. :D

As for booting slower than XP, well XP was a successor so I'd certainly expect it to be boot faster. :razz: ;)
 
Downloading to the netbook now, will leave the wife's computer till I see what hassles result:eek:
 
Well apart from taking hours and more bleedin hours to download and install, it hung during a reboot.

Restarted and it sorted itself out after another half hour or so.

Not at all sure I like this IE9 layout, or it collecting lots of "anonymous" info to help my browsing pleasure.

Anyway that is now all turned off and Bing also discarded.

Other than that, no difference noticed so far and not sure it was worth the effort either!
 
well the standalone installer is 900mb but from windows update im pretty sure it only downloads the parts you actually need.

IE9 layout? nothings changed in our IE8.

essentially its just a big update rollup with a couple of small changes so really all youll see is a little more free disk space.
 
People are using IE :thinking: ;)
 
Got rid of IE9. Slowed my pc to a crawl when I was on the internet.
 
neil_g said:
IE8 is actually faster than FF here.. :lol:

(plus we need it for some apps, but IE9 is not supported yet)
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FF is slow, buggy and soooo last year.... Chrome (or Chromium based browsers) are where it's at for the ones in the know ;) :D
 
You need to get used to Chrome, but once you are, it is much more usable than either of the other two...

It isn't about speed of rendering, more the way the system works. As each window is a separate process, you can do a lot of cool things (e.g. ripping tabs to new windows)
 
Have to say that I think the Chromium based browsers are leading the field at the moment... IE is catching up, and FF is way behind with far too many bugs in it....
 
I would use google chrome, because I like no nonsense interfaces, but the fact that it collects your usage data, even when you've told it not to, is a big no no for me.
 
trencheel303 said:
I would use google chrome, because I like no nonsense interfaces, but the fact that it collects your usage data, even when you've told it not to, is a big no no for me.
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People keep saying this, but I can't find any evidence of that. This is what wikipedia says about usage tracking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Usage_tracking

basically, only collects install statistics. Google can track your usage every time you search anyway - I'm not sure what the problem is with that.
 
And if you're really paranoid, use SRWare Iron. It's google chrome for the paranoid....
 
neil_g said:
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IE9 layout? nothings changed in our IE8.

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I clicked to try out IE9, Neil, so different layout to IE8 but not any faster from what I have seen so far (or slower).
 
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