Microsoft about changes made in Vista SP1

Microsoft has published a detailed list of modifications to the Windows Vista service package, which the company plans to release this week in an open beta.
17-page document details what Microsoft calls "significant changes" in Vista SP1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), a preliminary version of which in recent weeks has sent thousands of invited testers and will be open to all comers. Microsoft said the tens of additions and improvements in all areas of equipment and support to the security and reliability of sync with future Windows Server 2008. Most of the items contained in the section "The improvements in productivity and energy consumption." Microsoft claims that Vista has become a local copy files to 25% faster, but from a remote PC, which was also installed Vista SP1-to 50% faster. In addition, Vista SP1 quickly opens up large images, and the attached Internet Explorer 7 faster working with the sites where intensively used JavaScript scripts.
On security, except for all issued patches to November, in Vista SP1 made some more general changes. For example, corrected a mistake that the company did not want to acknowledge and does not explain: "SP1 includes improvements in the Secure Development Lifecycle, which allows Microsoft to identify the cause of each vulnerability, and improves our internal tools, excluding programs such fragments, which could lead to new vulnerability" , says in the document.
Microsoft kept promise given year ago Symantec, McAfee and the European Union, which complained that the company has blocked access to the nucleus 64-bit edition Vista. In autumn 2006, Symantec and McAfee technology rebelled against Microsoft Kernel Patch Protection (or, otherwise, PatchGuard), and stated that it impedes the work of existing technologies, such as preventing incursions. They were joined by the EU, accusing the company in the application of technology to suppress competition in the market for security devices.
According to the list of enhancements in SP1 entered Ends applications that Microsoft first introduced in December last year. "These API to help developers create software, extending the functionality of Windows kernel for 64-bit platforms, with adequate support and documentation and without blocking or weakening of the functions of the protection of the Kernel Patch Protection" says the document.