With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent

[Joe cann]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141720-c,vistalonghorn/article.html


With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can
Microsoft right the OS's wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack?
Microsoft made the latest beta of Vista SP1 available to the public earlier
this month, and after informally testing it for a couple of days, I find my
PC is working more reliably--and some tasks especially file copying, take
less time. But I was hoping for more out of SP1, such as bigger system
performance gains and fixes for Vista annoyances including the
oft-criticized User Account Control feature.
And if you are waiting for major improvements to switch to Vista, you'd
better hope that Microsoft's SP1 development team goes into overdrive before
the service pack's official release and gives you more compelling reasons to
make the jump to the OS. Vista undergoes no major overhaul with the SP1
release I looked at.

 

[David A. Spicer]

Here's my take: If you're using a manufacturer installed OS expect problems.
I installed a retail OEM Vista Ultimate on my Dell and it now works great.

 

[PNutts]

And the rest of the article goes on to sing the praises of SP1. Look right
under the BIG bold headline: SP1 Boosts Reliability, Security, and
Performance.

Overall a very positive article.

 

[XS11E]

Here's my take: If you're using a manufacturer installed OS expect
problems.

I used an OEM installed OS for quite some time on this machine, an HP
M7750N with Vista Home Premium preinstalled.

Problems = none (other than the usual time spent removing crapware.)

I see absolutely no reason anyone should expect problems with an OEM
version of Vista but it does require people RTFM and do their homework
exactly the same as a retail version of Vista.