Windows Vista SP1 was made available to Windows Vista users via the Windows Update site today. This group of updates, which includes all updates released for the OS since its debut in February 2007, is now available.
I have not yet tested it, but reports on the web seem to imply that the dramatic performance updates that Microsoft promised from this updates do not seem to be there.
Have you had a chance to try Vista SP1? What kind of early results have you seen.
As we come up on the one year anniversary of the release of Windows Vista, it seems a good time to reflect on the OS. I have always been an early adopter of Windows operating systems. Moving to 4.01 when others were happy with the 3.x versions. Going from store to store looking for Dos 5.0, due to it’s improved memory manager features that allowed you to properly configure your PC to use extended and or expanded memory so that I could run the app that always said I did not have enough memory.
Purchasing and installing Windows 95 on August 24 1995 even though I said I was going to hold out and see how it goes. The same for Windows 98. Thankfully I skipped the Windows Me fiasco.
When Windows XP was released to manufacturer’s I ordered a new PC with the shinny new Windows XP.
Now here I am one year after the release of Windows Vista, still running Windows XP. Why, I am not really sure. In each prior upgrade, there seemed to be a reason to upgrade. In this case I am not sure if it is so. Sure, Vista has some interesting features, but not enough to get me to purchase a new PC, with at least 2Gb of ram. Will I run Vista at some point? I would imagine so, but I am still very happy with XP.
What are you running, Windows XP? Windows Vista? Something else?
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a recent article on their site with a follow up article in their newspaper that discusses the same similar topic.
Click here to read.
