That is a standard practice AFAIK. Think of it... All previous MS OSes really became feasible after SP1 and started to shine after SP2. Win 7 seems to be a no

That is a standard practice AFAIK. Think of it... All previous MS OSes really became feasible after SP1 and started to shine after SP2. Win 7 seems to be a notable exception (truthfully it is a Vista SP2). Anyways one supper happy Win7 user here - although 64 bit is STILL not what it should be - Firefox memory leaks are a bit worse and it is noticeably slower (I have 32bit W7 on laptop) plus some other minor issues - but that is hardly Microsoft's fault.