VITSA SP1 is Here - Ho Hum, Just like VISTA

I do not use VISTA daily - only in a test lab. However with identical hardware VISTA just runs slower - by design. It is trying to do SO much more in the security area, plus all the integration of other "features" that it has to constantly check on them for no matter if there or not, so it just will run slower since it uses up CPU cycles to allow these features to exist.

For the IT MANAGMENT people - it makes their life easier - it just shifts the time saved by these 20 people to letting the users waste more time by all the things they cannot do - and must call to the IT staff to do for them - and waste time relearning how to do THE SAME TASKS in a different way - without any real gains in efficiency in doing those tasks. There is no compelling program or OS feature that tells people "getting this new OS will make it easier to do this task now because of the OS."  A good example is when MS built into Explorer the ability to see thumbnails of images. That make things easier for people to work with images - I cannot think of a SINGLE feature in VISTA that makes it easier to do a TASK.

Things are invented to allow people to do tasks easier. VISTA, for users, is designed to look pretty.

VISTA is like having a pretty women deliver a watered down overpriced drink to a college guy on vacation -  it makes him feel good for a few minutes but leaves him with less money and not any happier than he was before.