Microsoft has just announced that they will be releasing a beta SP1 for vista soon (To a very limited group). A few top items that will be resolved in this service pack:
* Support for Direct 3D 10.1
* support for Secure Digital (SD) Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA) to improve transfer performance and decrease CPU utilization
* Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files, shut down and resume Vista machines
* Support for ExFat, the Windows file format for flash memory storage and other consumer devices
* Improvements to BitLocker Drive Encryption to allow not just encryption of the whole Vista volume, but also locally created data volumes
* The ability to boot Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) on an x64 machine
* Improvements to battery life by reducing CPU utilization be “not redrawing the screen as frequently, on certain computers”
* Improvements to Interneet Explorer 7 performance by reducing CPU utilization and speeding JavaScript parsing
I don’t see much of anything that makes me happy on that list. Not one of them was something I had in mind when thinking about what needs to be fixed in Vista. Hopefully they will resolve some of these issues
(Update) I have found some links with more info about SP1: