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blue-ray disks? (BLU-RAY DISCS) lol seriously.......a big company like microsoft wrote that......come on!]]>Jul 30th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Unless the disc is in a package, such as a caddy or sleeve, then it is just a DISC and NOT a "disk". Understand?]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
From Dictionary.com:

Usage Note: When new words come into the language, they often have different forms for a period until one form wins out over the others. There are occasions when competing forms remain in use for a long time. The word disk and its descendant compound compact disk represent good examples of this phenomenon. Disk came into English in the mid-17th century and was originally spelled with a k on the model of older words such as whisk. The c-spelling arose a half century later as a learned spelling derived from the word's Latin source discus. Both disc and disk were used interchangeably into the 20th century, with people in Britain tending to use disc more often, and Americans preferring disk. The spellings also began to be sorted out by function. Late in the 19th century, for reasons that are not clear, people used disc to refer to the new method of making phonograph recordings on a flat plate (as opposed to Edison's cylindrical drum). In any case, the c-spelling became conventional for this sense, which is why we listen to disc jockeys and not disk jockeys. In the 1940s, however, when American computer scientists needed a term to refer to their flat storage devices, they chose the spelling disk, and this became conventionalized in such compounds as hard disk and floppy disk. When the new storage technology of the compact disk arose in the 1970s, both c- and k-spellings competed for an initial period. Computer specialists preferred the familiar k-spelling, while people in the music industry, who saw the shiny circular plates as another form of phonograph record, referred to them as compact discs. These tendencies soon became established practice in the different industries. This is why we buy compact disks in computer stores but get the same storage devices with different data as compact discs in music stores. Similarly, the computer industry created the optical disk, the format that the entertainment industry used to create the videodisc.]]>Jul 31st 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Disk for computer related media.
Disc for music and video.

So it's a Blu-Ray Disc if it's a movie you bought, and a Blu-Ray Disk if it's a blank BRD? for burning whatever you want to it.

So, Jordan above is incorrect. It actually is a Blu-Ray Disc in that context (Movie playback).

Education FTW.]]>Jul 31st 2007 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Aug 3rd 2007 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
I have these patches installed and they are running great. Have definately noticed the difference on the File Copy estimating time problem.]]>Jul 30th 2007 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
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Awesome!]]>Jul 30th 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Oh, and whilst im at it. The driver for the KWorld DVBT 100 just kills it (reboot), no BSOD anymore of course. Actually I'd rather have the BSOD with error messages which would at least help explain why, rather than a my PC just flat-line before my very eyes.
As%$£*5.
]]>Jul 30th 2007 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
"938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the performance and responsiveness for some scenarios and improves reliability of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

* Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.
* Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.
* Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.
* Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.
* Improves the performance in calculating the ‘estimated time remaining’ when copying/moving large files.
* Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.
* Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.
* Resolves a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS 1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.
* Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
* Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
* Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the reliability and hardware compatibility of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

* Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
* Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
* Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
* Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.
* Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.
* Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.
* Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
* Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.
* Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
* Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
* Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep."]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
idoit ]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Stop being a troll, Miles.]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Hopefully the SP wont make my computer suffer the problems I don't get while trying to fix them. Each time XP did an update another part of it would function slower or less reliably.

I think it is a case of making sure all you components are compatible fully with Vista to get the best out of it. I must note I have Ultimate x64, maybe the problems are isolated to x86 systems.]]>Jul 31st 2007 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
I'm proud Apple has made an OS that enables idiots such as Miles to feel like he's contributed something worthwhile to the world. What's that you ask? The economy, silly.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 31st 2007 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
A common thought is that the DRM testing in Vista (not in any previous version of Windows) is the cause of the issue - it seems possible to me that might be the case. Many people don't do that much file copying or transfering and only work in standalone environments (not networks) so the issue isn't as noticeable to them. However one reason most businesses have not adopted Vista is this issue that MS doesn't like to comment about. This patch is designed to address it to some degree but doesn't come close to fixing it.]]>Jul 31st 2007 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
I don't know if it's just me, or the small minority of the Earth, but Vista's running great on my Vaio. The only problem I can think of it just 1 or 2 games wouldn't work. That's about all.

But SP1 should be great. I'm quite certain that many people will move on to Vista now. Considering, it's now a tradition to wait until a SP comes out. Good luck waiting a long time for SP2.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/Jul 30th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Apple puts out an OS X release about every 2-3 years. All of these provided brand new features, performance enhancements, and new frameworks. Take 10.5, Leopard for example. Not only are you getting the cool end user features such as spaces, the new dashboad widgets, new dock, new menubar, stacks, ext. Apple also includes many under the hood improvements such as core animation which allows for flashier animations and user interfaces, (as well as makes them much easier to write), full 64bit support through the application level, and better, more efficient use of multicore processors to name a few.

Apple puts out alot of releases of OS X, and sure, they do cost money, but most of them are really worth it. Just because each version isn't named OS 11, OS 12, ext. doesn't mean it isn't a major update.]]>Jul 31st 2007 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/You sure know "300 new features" doesn't mean new features but performance upgrades/ changes like the one MS is offering here. I can find a free 3rd party application for every "revolutionary" piece of new software apple adds to OS X.

Admit it, you pay $129 for a SERVICE PACK every second year. Cat names are running out. Wonder what's the next service pack gonna be called.]]>Jul 31st 2007 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Leopard is to tiger like vista is to xp. Vista has a few new features, new development tools and many under the hood improvements. Leopard also has new features, as well as a new version of Xcode and new applications for building and testing apps, and many new things under the hood such as full 64bit support to the application level, and core animation.

Apple does release service packs in the form of 10.x.x updates. Tiger on my macbook works perfectly fine. Very fast and stable.

I'm sorry that you don't like Apple, but Leopard is worth the 130$. Before screaming out BS, why don't you learn the facts. With your logic, Vista could be considered to be a service pack to xp, which we all know it isn't.]]>Jul 31st 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack-hits-the-web-prematurely/
Maybe you should learn about platforms. Vista is NOT build over XP. Vista was built on a skeleton Windows Server 2003 codebase. So it's not like leopard which is built on top.

Leopard is like Windows XP 2. XP2 had 'under-the-hood improvements in the codebase, new features. I could find "300 new features" in XP 2, if someone paid me.

This entry talked about performance upgrades. I get vista upgrades every second week alongwith security updates ever since I bought mine in april - Your 10.x.x release types. This one's a nice pack that would probably patch the kernel itself for bugs.

Really sorry, seems like you need another reason to justify paying for your OS X service packs.]]>Aug 1st 2007 12:02PM