I’ve heard a number of people saying that they are waiting for Microsoft to release the first Service Pack for Windows 7 before they upgrade to the new operating system.

This is understandable from an historical perspective as traditionally new operating systems have needed service pack releases in order to fix major security problems, as in XP, and in order to make it work, in any real sense of the word, in Vista.

Windows 7 however, suffers from no such problems and there is no technical reason at all not to upgrade to Windows 7 now.

Microsoft are very aware of the tendency of customers, especially corporate clients, to wait on the Service Pack release before buying, so there is one in the pipeline, but it is mainly to satisfy the above perception and of course to gain more headline publicity than fix any glaring deficiencies.