windowsguy Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 In a rather surprising move, Microsoft has released a 17-page document which outlines, in detail all changes in Vista SP1. Microsoft in the past released bits and pieces of what is expected in a Service Pack but this is the most complete change log released for a Service Pack.Long Zhen highlighted some of the key changes and for those wanting the main of the main changes I bolded the best of the best:[*]Adds support for new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) industry standard PC firmware for 64-bit systems with functional parity with legacy BIOS firmware, which allows Windows Vista SP1 to install to GPT format disks, boot and resume from hibernate using UEFI firmware.[*]Adds support for Direct3D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxxx428 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I'd like to know where these numbers come from. I just finished testing the last version for 2 weeks on my main machine and the numbers they give just don't match up to my real world useage. Maybe they've stashed something away for the public release but I seriously doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sora86 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 In a rather surprising move, Microsoft has released a 17-page document which outlines, in detail all changes in Vista SP1. Microsoft in the past released bits and pieces of what is expected in a Service Pack but this is the most complete change log released for a Service Pack.Long Zhen highlighted some of the key changes and for those wanting the main of the main changes I bolded the best of the best:[*]Adds support for new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) industry standard PC firmware for 64-bit systems with functional parity with legacy BIOS firmware, which allows Windows Vista SP1 to install to GPT format disks, boot and resume from hibernate using UEFI firmware.[*]Adds support for Direct3D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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