We anxiously await Vista’s SP1 due out in January to rid us of the pain-in-the-neck Kill Switch that some diabolical MS engineer came up with.

While Vista will still haunt you with messages, it will no longer disable your OS. Microsoft plans to roll back WGA to where it might nag you, but will not block access to any installed programs or Windows features.

WGA senior product manger, Alex Kochis, who said, "Based on customer feedback, we will not reduce user functionality on systems determined to be non-genuine."

All Hail Microsoft! Well, maybe…

The first service pack for Windows Vista was reviewed by APCMag and it contains the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks. What’s new is the ability to create a recovery disk, plus a whole bunch of new install packages for Vista’s components. And that’s The Word.