For a few months now any mention of Vista would spark some conversation about its failings, with an addendum asking "where the hell is SP1?" This week then represented a small step forward, with Microsoft finally making the Release Candidate 1 version of Service Pack 1 available to the public to download.

This includes a vast number of updates - too many to list here. However, what can be divulged in this space and at this time is that this is primarily a performance update. New features do exist but for the most part it's all about stability and performance, with lots of new bits and pieces that should hopefully make Vista a good deal more efficient. Hope that it will fix my hibernate problem (I'm not alone in this case).