Microsoft have today released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM). They are claiming great progress in performance, compatibility and reliability.
I certainly hope this will be the customer experience. Whilst I haven’t personally had any issues with the “Gold” release of Vista, there are some performance aspects that I hope have been sorted in SP1. In particular file copying seems to be very slow in the Gold version. The comment from Microsoft is once SP1 has been installed on your system, copying or moving files should now be much faster, up to 50% faster. Let’s see if that holds true.
Microsoft says that 98 out of the top 100 software applications have versions that are Vista compatible. This along with support for more that 78,000 devices, which is up from 34,000 in November 2006 should make most people quite comfortable making the move to Vista.
Vista SP1 is scheduled for availability via Windows Update and the Microsoft download center around mid March 2008.
