Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Feb 2007 21:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Windows 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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RE[4]: Nvidia GFX card(s)
by stestagg on Mon 19th Feb 2007 10:21 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Nvidia GFX card(s)"
stestagg
Member since:
2006-06-03

It's hardly a double-standard!

The situation as I see it, is that Nvidia have developed and sold a product with working software.
A third party company (MS) with enough market clout to be able to just ignore any complaints/boycotts from the industry arbitrarily turn around and tell them to develop new software because they have decided to change the interfaces that their product should use.
NVidia have no incentive to spend lots of money developing drivers for older hardware OR developing dual drivers for newer hardware.
Failing to do so will drive H/W sales in new products anyway.

The situation is much simpler and bi-polar in Linux. Linux have provided a system and the commercial vendors have refused to support it. There's not much that Linux has done wrong in this situation.

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RE[5]: Nvidia GFX card(s)
by agn_os_tick on Mon 19th Feb 2007 11:57 in reply to "RE[4]: Nvidia GFX card(s)"
agn_os_tick Member since:
2007-02-17

If Microsoft got it wrong with Nvidia, did they get it right with ATI?

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RE[5]: Nvidia GFX card(s)
by agn_os_tick on Mon 19th Feb 2007 12:04 in reply to "RE[4]: Nvidia GFX card(s)"
agn_os_tick Member since:
2007-02-17

"From day one, ATI played a key role in helping us design and validate the new driver model at the heart of Windows Vista and ATI has since developed extremely robust and performant drivers that highlight the capabilities of our new operating system.”

http://ati.amd.com/technology/windowsvista/index.html

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