If you've been following my blog for a while you know that I've been waiting for Vista Service Pack 1 for quite a while, with high hopes that it would make life with Vista a lot better.  A few weeks ago I was able to get my hands on the final copy of SP1 and I've been playing with it as much as I can since then.

While it seems to be a bit better it is not the vast improvement I have been hoping for.  Things are still slow, copying files over the network still sucks, window focus is always going screwy, and in generally it's still just a slow dog.  Even with all the GUI shit turned off.  So far I'm very disappointed, how could it be that the largest software company on earth would not only release Vista when it wasn't ready but more than a year later and after the first service pack have it still suck.

I haven't yet taken any machines back to XP since installing Vista SP1 but I'm doing that now to do some testing.  I'm getting really tired of this game, really tired of Microsoft making me look bad.  If only OS X and Linux were real options.  I hope to soon post real world benchmarks between Vista and XP on the same hardware so I can see which is better.  I'm guessing it's going to be XP, wouldn't you think?