With Vista's first service pack due for wide release early next year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is intent on addressing the many things which need to be fixed in its still-young operating system. The question is, are they going to fix the right things? I think not, since the problems this time 'round aren't bugs so much as performance. Read on for my list of five must-have Vista corrections.
# 1) Good Performance From SP1.
There's currently a debate raging about just how well the upcoming Vista Service Pack 1 works. (This guy says it stinks, Paul Thurrott thinks it's going to be pretty good.) You and I can't know for sure, since SP1 is currently in the hands of a select group of testers.
However, a release candidate of SP1 is supposed to hit the Web very soon, at which time we'll be able to put it through its paces. Early word is that it focuses far less on raw performance than on fixing all the little nits that a first service pack for a new Microsoft operating system has to address.