Vista service pack
Service pack 1 for Windows Vista is scheduled for release soon, by sometime in March or perhaps even earlier. Version RC1 has already been made available to the general public. (Incidentally, I do not recommend that the average PC user try to install this package.) Many have been waiting in hopes that SP1 would improve Vista enough to entice them to switch to the newer OS from Windows XP. I haven’t tried out SP1 but, from what I read, improvements are on the margin. The update is not in final form yet so more improvements may occur but it seems likely that SP1 is in nearly finished shape. PC World has an article on SP1 that first asks:
With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can Microsoft right the OS’s wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack?
Then the article gives some impressions from the author’s testing of SP1. For example, he says:
Many of Microsoft’s promised performance gains were negligible on my machine. I ran a number of tests before I installed SP1 and after. The only tasks that were noticeably speedier were those that involved transferring files.
The article concludes that so far SP1 is a “ho-hum release”.
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