Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released in a staggered fashion to a variety of channels, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 is right around the corner. So why should you care if you’re also considering adopting Windows Server 2008? How do the respective service packs fit into the overall design?
Let’s take a look at each of them.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Perhaps the most well-known change in store for Vista Service Pack 1 users is the alleged improvement in file-copying speeds between SP1 machines and Windows Server 2008 computers. Some tests — using pre-release builds of both of these products — showed a comparatively significant improvement in transferring both a large number of smaller files and a single, extremely large file over a link to a Windows Server 2008 machine.
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