Windows Vista SP1 officially released

After months spent in development, Microsoft finally unleashed Windows Vista SP1 upon the world last Tuesday. As it has been out in the wild for a full week now, the time is probably ripe for a few reactions from around the web:

• "From the beginning, Vista had some significant issues with excessive hard drive use. The drive light would routinely stay fully or mostly lit for many minutes at a time, even when most programs had been closed. The downloaded SP1 improved this quite a bit, resulting in crisper performance." -PC Magazine
• "Do you need Windows Vista SP1? Yes and no. It's always good to install the latest (read: patched) code for any operating system. But downloading and installing the update will take some users a few hours without any visible or tangible improvements to their systems." -CNET
• "We received a huge response to our poll question the other day, "How's Windows Vista SP1 working out?" Most of you didn't notice much of a difference after the install...while updating is usually the right thing to do, SP1 doesn't have enough noticeable changes to make you jump out of your seat." -Gizmodo

Has your organization deployed Vista SP1 yet? If so, how are things working out? Let us know in the comments.

For more on Vista SP1:
- see this PC Magazine article
- this CNET article
- and this Gizmodo article