It's an epidemic here that so many of us geeks just hates Microsoft - full stop. It's as if the 70,000 odd employees at Microsoft are all thick, incompetent nuts - c'mon people, get real! It's not easy to be hired by Microsoft - the bunch at Redmond and accross the globe are truly awesome at what they do.
There are "hundred's of thousands" of hardware components out there for Windows. One can't truly expect Microsoft to write drivers (millions of lines of code) for hardware they have no financial benefit from. This task would dwarf the entire development for Windows itself. Why should hardware vendors get free drivers?
I agree that MS should create a list of hardware with suspect drivers so users can be aware of which items would make their OS unstable, before they buy.
Two things hampered Vista's perception of what it truly could have been:
1) Driver instability (which is not Microsoft's fault) and
2) heavy resource requirements
If you carefully select the hardware to marry with Vista, and give it some oomph in the RAM and CPU department, it's a gem - gaming on it is just incomparable to anything else! These days "Windows Server 2008" (running the Vista kernel) is almost all I use on my Macbook Pro using VMWare's Fusion. I've never had more fun with an OS! It doesn't have the glorious transparency of Linux, but Server 2008 just works, all the time, and has the Vista look if you enable the desktop experience - Leopard pales in ability. Having Leopard sleep (it's way faster and more efficient at this than Server 2008) underneath Fusion, is a great combo!
My point is that we should give credit where it's due. Microsoft is no monkey. MS employs the best and brightest - Google "microsoft talent"!
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There are "hundred's of thousands" of hardware components out there for Windows. One can't truly expect Microsoft to write drivers (millions of lines of code) for hardware they have no financial benefit from. This task would dwarf the entire development for Windows itself. Why should hardware vendors get free drivers?
I agree that MS should create a list of hardware with suspect drivers so users can be aware of which items would make their OS unstable, before they buy.
Two things hampered Vista's perception of what it truly could have been:
1) Driver instability (which is not Microsoft's fault) and 2) heavy resource requirements
If you carefully select the hardware to marry with Vista, and give it some oomph in the RAM and CPU department, it's a gem - gaming on it is just incomparable to anything else! These days "Windows Server 2008" (running the Vista kernel) is almost all I use on my Macbook Pro using VMWare's Fusion. I've never had more fun with an OS! It doesn't have the glorious transparency of Linux, but Server 2008 just works, all the time, and has the Vista look if you enable the desktop experience - Leopard pales in ability. Having Leopard sleep (it's way faster and more efficient at this than Server 2008) underneath Fusion, is a great combo!
My point is that we should give credit where it's due. Microsoft is no monkey. MS employs the best and brightest - Google "microsoft talent"!