To be honest, I am just not feeling the whole “Service Pack 1″ ruined my life routine. Here is why: those affected are using Windows. Alright, fine. And as Windows users, you know full well that like patches to any OS, it can be a real crapshoot as to what is going to get hosed. Again, blame yourselves as you are willingly allowing Microsoft to install this stuff on your hardware.

Besides all of that, I do believe at the end of the day, once the bugs have finally been worked out, the improvements ought to get file copying all the way up to Windows XP speeds.

Now I fully understand that many companies are bound in a Windows world and for a great many people, despite its flaws, Windows still does the job. But anyone with any common level of experience who is knowingly installing brand new service packs without waiting for the blogosphere to catch up with the latest issues to be had is a fool in my mind. Unless you are working off of a test box, blind updates are not to be trusted. Security my eye, I have always been careful on all my the platforms about blindly installing the latest updates for precisely this reason - security over a functioning box, the choice is yours.

So when the next SP’s come rolling out for Vista, I would suggest waiting and allowing the other folks out there to make the mistake for you. That way when you are finally ready, hopefully the larger issues will have been resolved.