The decision to wait is, to me, a no-brainer. To be clear, my point is to wait, for now, not to avoid SP1 forever. From what I've read, the improvements in Windows 7 SP1 are trivial and/or irrelevant to most users. Any pessimism needs to be weighed against the improvements offered by the new bug fixes and/or new features.
Given sufficient time, affected vendors may include fixes in new releases, make patches available or, at the least, document a work-around.Ī service pack contains three things: previously released bug fixes, new bug fixes and new features. Waiting, allows time for software vendors to discover any incompatibilities with the new service pack.
