The article says nothing more than the headline...

I have not been impressed with Vista. Of the few clients that have it, most don't get why MS bothered and a few want to throttle Bill Gates. Until I start seeing reports that compatibility is vastly improved I'm going to tell clients to stick to XP. Know problems are better than new ones.

I for one enjoy Vista. With the minor exception of audio configurations due to the restructuring of driver control, Vista is what I feel XP should have been. The only snag I ran into in the installation of SP1 was that when I rebooted, I lost Aero, and the computer wanted to re-activate. When I tried to re-activate, I was told I had to reinstall the OS. At that point, I rebooted once more, and everything was fine, I guess the SP needed to have one more reboot. Otherwise, most, if not all, of the quirks in Vista have been ironed out, or at least the ones I run into on my 6 computers running Vista.

Being an unpaid beta tester is not my idea of fun. I'll wait until Vista SP2, which fixes all the bugs introduced in SP1 is released, and gets PC World's imprimatur.

First off the file size is rather large, I have DSL and it still took half an hour. Those with dial up, many hours awaits you.
The install took up another two hours, all was going well until the very end. And I saw a notice saying the update had failed and will uninstall. The uninstall took another hour to complete. After much research (on my own) I found a setting in the services list that was the likely cause (windows installer module) mine was set to manual, it should be set to automatic and then restarted.
The 2nd attempt to install SP1 went smooth.

I've upgraded a couple of Vista machines to SP1, no problems noted. They are, however, non-critical machines that if they crashed, I'd not care. I still use XP Pro for all my consulting and important work. Stability is key!

You know, not everyone out there is having a terrible experience with Vista SP1. Here's an article about how it worked just fine.

http://computermaint.webs.com/articles.htm?blogentryid=3171044

I guess it's only news if it's negative though. Oh well. Keep on going, all you microsoft haters! It's real original and really shows that you know how to stick it to the man!

I had no problem installing the SP 1 updates for Vista. I really don't think there is any reason not to upgrade to Vista if your PC meets the minimum requirements. I really like it.

We just bought a new Toshiba with Vista. It took an hour to download all of the updates and install them. What a pain in the ass! This was 2 days before SP1 was released. We also had to spend an additional hour removing all the crap trial software making the PC slow as an old dog. Now i get to download SP1 and spend another hour wasted. What a mess this has become.

I couldn't buy a new laptop in a store - they all have Vista. I need XP to ensure compatability with an App, which is the whole reason for the purchase, and I am always leary about MS OSs.

Part of the reason I bought a Mac was Windows XP. I now run Mac Boot Camp allowing me to go between Mac OS and Vista Ultimate , now with SP1. It works very well and believe it is superior to XP.