Word is that Microsoft’s effort to improve the way its newest desktop OS deals with file- and print-sharing over the WAN isn’t half bad. With a trio of performance-boosters – a revised TCP/IP stack, a new CIFS implementation and QoS enhancements – industry watchers report better WAN performance for some applications, especially longer file transfers. But as with most-things Microsoft, Vista’s WAN performance improvements are a work in progress and suffer some problems.
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