Disponible desde ayer el Service Pack 1 para Windows Vista.
Ayer día 18 de marzo se hizo disponible la versión definitiva del Service Pack 1 para Windows Vista. Se puede descarar desde Windows Update o directamente a través de los siguientes enlaces:
A continuación os dejo (en inglés) las novedades más destacables de este Service Pack:
Hardware Ecosystem Support and Enhancements
| • | 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 x64 EFI network boot. |
| • | Adds support for the 64-bit version of MSDASQL, which acts as a “bridge” from OLEDB to a variety of ODBC drivers thus simplifying application migration from 32-bit platforms to 64-bit Windows Vista. |
| • | Adds support for Direct3D® 10.1, an update to Direct3D 10 that extends the API to support new hardware features, enabling 3D application and game developers to make more complete and efficient use of the upcoming generations of graphics hardware. |
| • | Adds support for exFAT, a new file system supporting larger overall capacity and larger files, which will be used in Flash memory storage and consumer devices. |
| • | Adds support for SD Advanced DMA (ADMA) on compliant SD standard host controllers. This new transfer mechanism, which is expected to be supported in SD controllers soon, will improve transfer performance and decrease CPU utilization. |
| • | Adds support for creating a single DVD media that boots on PCs with either BIOS or EFI. |
| • | Enhances support for high density drives by adding new icons and labels that will identify HD-DVD and Blu-ray Drives as high density drives. |
| • | Adds support to enable new types of Windows Media Center Extenders, such as digital televisions and networked DVD players, to connect to Windows Media Center PCs. |
| • | Enhances the MPEG-2 decoder to support content protection across a user accessible bus on Media Center systems configured with Digital Cable Tuner hardware. This also effectively enables higher levels of hardware decoder acceleration for commercial DVD playback on some hardware. |
| • | Enhances Netproj.exe to temporarily resize the desktop to accommodate custom projector resolutions when connecting to Windows Network Projectors. |