Official Vista "performance" and "compatibility" packs released
 

Microsoft still isn't commenting on when a beta of Service Pack 1 for Vista will be officially released (our money is on November), but the company has posted two updates that are expected to be part of that final package: the performance and reliability update and the compatibility and reliability update. These are official releases.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-released.html

Fixes some of the more annoying flaws, file transfer speeds are up, but not "ideal" yet it seems, hibernate works better, and TCP/IP still works now too after a wake-up.