“How does Service Pack 1 affect Windows Vista’s day-to-day performance in common desktop applications and games? We’ve run a host of benchmarks in order to find out. Read on to see what we discovered.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Consistency is not necessarily a virtue

Waiting for the first service pack to come out has become a popular pastime for Windows users when Microsoft releases a new OS. Now that Vista has a service pack which, along with all of the included patches, is supposed to bring speed improvements when copying files and other actions. The Tech Report tested that theory out.