Windows Vista Service Pack 1

This as expected was a very busy session. No seats were remaining so I had to sit on the floor at the back.

(It's amazing how an application crashing and burning can attract so many numbers!!!!!!!!!!!!)

From past experience in Vista I know how terrible the newly written audio stack and the awful driver support which leaves you with blue screens which frustrate the everyday user can be.

SP1 therefore is of coure the solution............

Noooooo...

Instead Microsoft seem to have focused on improving the speed of unzipping a zipped folder to the desktop. Awww bless. If only I had the courage to stand up and say "Yeh but WinRAR is still quicker and it needs sooooooo much less resources than the out of the box solution.

And think of all the time they have spent on this!!!! They probably forgot about the fact that if people with a Medley Serial ATA 133 RAID PCI adaptor upgrade their driver through the Windows Update Service as reccomended by the speaker in the presentation they can say goodbye to their pc forever. (This is true, I've tested it!)

In my opinion Vista was never ready to RTM (Release To Manufacturer) and it still is not! SP1 focuses on some performance increases that already existed in Windows XP but does not fix the critical errors that have been made with Vista.

TBH I don't believe Vista will be ready for a long time! Yes it looks cool and it's got some see-through stuff but so does Leopard OS-X and that doesnt let you down when you try play an MP3. Maybe when we get to about SP4 it will be useable.

This is a bit of a dissapointer for me and maybe this is why I have posted it last thing but I don't see a lot of encouragement to upgrade to Vista. The specs of machines Microsoft are saying are minimum specs are 800mhz with 512mb or ram. This may sound like just some figures but when entire Microsoft projects are based on these statistics which in my opinion (I have tried Vista on 512mb laptop which was fine until I wanted to do something) are wrong, they need to have a rethink. I don't think there is anything wrong with saying PC's should have at least 1gb of ram but pretending that Vista will work with less is being cruel!

I think I'm whinging so....

Server 2008 however is another story!!!!

Now that's a product we can really use to improve our Microsoft Based Servers.