Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Feb 2007 21:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
MBReview.com reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "Overall, my first impressions of Vista, and specifically Vista Ultimate, are quite good. I had few problems moving over hardware and software, other than issues of driver support by manufacturers. This is an extremely annoying issue and I'm sure I'm not alone in my distaste for such lack of driver support. The new Aero interface is gorgeous and is one of the big reasons I have moved over to Vista on my main system. It has it's quirks like anything, but it is a big improvement from WindowsXP. Thus far, I'm impressed."
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Why blame Microsoft? they don't write the drivers; the fundamental problem in your scenario is Nvidia and their crap quality of their drivers; they had over 2 years to get their drivers up to snuff and the design of WDDM was known before the the betas were released publicly.
Me? I'm pissed off as well; I have a Nvidia go 7300 on my laptop, I have the latest beta driver installed (100.64) and it gives me chills the fact that I have to resort to running a beta driver, but at the same time, however, I don't blame Microsoft for Nvidia's laziness.
Then again, Ati is no better - it seems that hardware companies want to do the *least* amount of work necessary to get their hardware up and working with Windows or Linux; and when the whole system is taken down thanks to their crappy driver, they run off and blame Microsoft.