I would normally ignore such questions. But when the reply comes from as knowledgeable a source as Joe Wilcox over the eWeek’s Microsoft Watch I take notice.

Joe takes us through the computer history of his friend, a bookseller who loves Microsoft — until now :

Only the newness of the Vista computer and my friend’s confidence in Microsoft have kept him from moving full-time back to the XP system. He wants to believe. But like me, his faith stopped with Vista SP1. He didn’t have confidence to install the update without me around, and I would want to back up everything first. There has been too much trouble surrounding SP1.

I haven’t updated my wife’s laptop, either. A few weeks back, one of the two SP1 prerequisite updates fatally wounded the boot-up process. System Restore rolled back the update and revived Vista.

I have to say I’ve not had as much trouble with my system as either Joe Wilcox or his friend. But then I haven’t been given the option of SP1 yet.

Food for thought.