isn't Vista Sp1 still in beta ?
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At 11:08 AM 3/5/2008, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with:
>Here is the funny part.  From what I've read, SP1 is supposed to speed up 
>Vista.  But in every test I've done (five systems so far, and one clean 
>install) SP1 slows the first two benchmarks by from 30% to 50%.  Now I find 
>that ridiculous.  I haven't read up on SP1, so maybe it's giving all sorts of 
>other exciting new features and the "better stability and performance" that MS 
>talks about wasn't the main purpose, but one would think that given that 
>performance is one of the huge complaints about Vista, MS would have tried to 
>do something to make it faster.  (And since boot time and shutdown time are 
>two of the major areas that end users recognize as issues, these would be 
>something to look at.)
>
>So from what I'm seeing here, SP1 is not going to save Vista.

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