Anyone who’s been chasing the buzz around Microsoft’s release of “Service Pack 1″ for their Windows Vista operating system have been eagerly awaiting for a final release date. Dates have been thrown around for some time now, ranging from the end of 2007, which clearly didn’t happen, to spring-summer 2008. Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people settling on February 15th as the release date for Service Pack 1 for Vista and I really do hope that its time. As well as SP1, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is also due out. I know many people who still use Windows XP and plan on sticking with XP for some time yet, myself included. Although I do wish to give Windows Vista another shot after SP1 lands, its just hard for me to be convinced to use Vista on my machine. Windows XP has always treated me well and Vista works fine for what it’s worth, but I’m just not convinced to stick with it for the time being.

Maybe Microsoft will finally give us a new operating system that’s finished? Or at least the pieces missing when we got the thing?