The long-awaited Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista brings with it a number of significant bug fixes and other improvements. Microsoft says that with it you will also see a number of noticeable performance improvements as well. In CNET's initial round of testing, the tester saw a mixed bag of results: CNET saw a few notable performance improvements under some conditions as well as significant performance degradations in others. For the most part, however, CNET saw little difference in performance between Vista and the Vista SP1 update.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I wish they'd have compared game performance. I could care less if it takes 5 seconds longer to copy a file...
Oh well, I went back to XP a couple of weeks ago anyway. Vista was nice enough, but didn't offer much new and there were too many game compatability problems, even with newer titles like the Witcher.
It only helped out with the USB sticks. I'm going to have for SP2 then. hmmph
Other reports have been saying that it improves performance nearly across the board.
One of those reports is,
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hard...
"CNET saw a few notable performance improvements under some conditions as well as significant performance degradations in others."
Good god, It's already damn slow now. I'll stick to XP for now, will patiently wait for SP2.
I tested the beta of sp1 and i found it to give great performance programs load instantly and start up and shutdown times where faster i'm not going back to xp i'm on vista at the mo and i like it had no problems since release.