Thumbs down for Vista Service Pack 1

If you, like me, were hoping to see file transfer speed improve with Vista Service Pack 1, get ready to be let down. In my tests, speeds have not improved at all. Infact, most of my tests with SP1 were slower than they were before with the RTM of Vista. I tested local hard drive 1 to local hard drive 2, local hard drive 1 to network share (Win2000 machine), network share to hard drive 1, and local drive 1 to the same local drive.

Very disappointing... I so wanted to like Vista but Microsoft is making it very hard. Its like they are trying to push loyal users away. At this point, I'm just tired of trying. I don't have the energy or time to whip a Linux distro into working order. I'd be even more restricticed with OSX. Windows 7 is too far off to even start thinking about. XP seems like the only logical choice for a productive workstation. I sure hope they can turn things around with Windows 7...