Neowin is reporting that Microsoft will soon be making available several hotfixes for Vista. Their site has a whole list so I won't reproduce it here, however, it's definitely worth checking out.
Some of the items are about "improved reliability and compatibility." It's hard to say whether they will impact you or me. It'll depend on the situation.
Other items have my attention. For instance, there's a bullet item that indicates there will be improvements in the speed of transferring or moving large amounts of data. Cool. And there will also be improvements in the dialogs that display estimated copy/move times. No more reporting of 45 seconds for the next three minutes I hope. :-)
I also see that there are expected to be improvements to going into and out of sleep mode. I have only had a few issues here--hibernate has been the real pain for me--my Toshiba M400 seems to wake up by itself when unplugged and in hibernate. Believe me that's a sure fire way to start a fire. Can you say one hot computer when the Tablet is folded up into a carrying case? I've been blaming this on a driver issue. Maybe it's a Vista one. Hmmm. I'm hoping that this problem will go away with these updates. If not, I'll continue with my workaround: either I keep the Tablet plugged in at all times when hibernated or I do a full shutdown otherwise. I'm too chicken to use sleep. It's too hot here in Phoenix to rely on computers staying cool enough when stowed away.
Anyway, I'm eagerly looking forward to these updates. Good news.


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