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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2006-01-02
I agree that Microsoft has some blame for the lack of drivers. It should be noted that nVidia and ATI had hands in the design of the WDDM and that they have access to Microsoft's kernel code (AFAIK, they actually have people on MS's campus who have offices in MS buildings and develop the code there). Graphics drivers are complex beasts, though... Someone said, though I'm not sure I can believe it, that there's more code in the nVidia binary blob than in the core of the linux kernel not counting driver modules. It takes time to write such a driver from scratch, which is what these folks have been doing.
And there's also the chicken-egg problem. They don't have the financial incentive to push hard on the Vista drivers until they have hardware in Vista customers' hands. This issue will improve steadily as more feedback comes in from the early adopters and crashes are fixed through Dr. Watson. There's probably nothing to be done but wait.