Make up your own mind

re: Make up your own mind

Matthew Clapham — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:50:28 GMT

You could just do what I do and ignore Walt these days. He's lost all credibility in my mind (due to comments like what you refer to above or others that came before it) and while he still has a few users, I don't think his install base is as large as it used to be if you know what I mean.

re: Make up your own mind

Rich Lusk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:29:21 GMT

I wasn't too impressed with the performance and reliablity of Vista RTM and did not offer it to my clients because I felt it wasn't ready yet.

But in all honesty I can say that Vista SP1 sure makes a huge difference in performance and reliability. It's too bad Vista didn't perfom like this at it's launch. But of course there still would have been those that would have suggested to wait for SP1 anyway.

I really enjoy Vista a lot more now with SP1. Good job Microsoft on a great Service Pack release.

re: Make up your own mind

kwsupport — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:20:46 GMT

I posted the following response to Walt's blog site:

Walt, to summarize -- large files copied in half the time as before, and waking from hibernation was up to 10 seconds faster, but no visible speed improvement from a cold start. So the only real complaint in your article is that your HP printer still doesn't work - which is an HP issue, not Microsoft's, for not providing proper printer drivers. So what's your beef?

As an aside, I would suggest providing people to a link to read what Vista SP1 does and does not include. Perhaps a link like this one from the Microsoft Vista Team Blog:

windowsvistablog.com/.../announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx