Well Microsoft has said that they are planning on releasing Vista SP1 into the wild in March or April. They need to get this right and I will be interested in how my system changes once I have SP1 installed.
Paul Thurrott keeps saying over and over that SP1 is not going to be a big deal and it’ll be just a rollup of previous hotfixes etc. Well, that’s not good in my opinion. I mean Vista has a lot of downfalls that need to be addressed.
- Slow, sluggish system performance compared to XP even on super fast systems with lots of RAM
- Vista never remembers custom window sizes or folder views – it drives me nuts
- File copying is sluggish and is error prone
- Vista pages out to the hard drive forcing it to thrash continuously driving me mad and most likely decreasing the life of my disk
Anyway, that’s just a few things that bother me about Vista. In general, it’s a better OS than XP but these things need to be addressed.
