For a long time now, I haven't liked Vista and John has. He has it on two PCs, I have stuck with XP - after trying Vista for a couple of months I switched back. "Wait until SP1 comes out" he used to tell me. Windows XP wasn't complete until SP1 gave it new life. I do remember. But is Vista SP1 the saving grace for the new OS? Here's what Bit-tech have to say in their analysis of Vista SP1:

"For the most part though, having used Vista SP1 RTM and the full release for the best part of a several weeks now, we can't say it'll sway more people into buying the OS – the improvements are subtle and virtually unnoticeable to the end user... both looking from core application performance and gaming performance perspectives. And one thing Vista SP1 definitely isn’t is another Windows XP SP2 – most will still consider Vista to be "bloatware" (it's been well documented as considerably slower) because the "performance improvements" are nowhere near what was needed to change people's minds."