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DevilsPGD <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> wrote:

>Sure it was.  Most of Vista's crashes were Nvidia driver related, and
>most of the rest was bad PR and perception.

Microsoft has been in the terrible position of having to fix other people's 
messes.  The security holes brought on by Adobe products is a perfect example. 
 People don't scream at Adobe, they scream at Microsoft.  So, MS does what it 
can to fix the damage to its reputation that really wasn't its fault.  

I think Steve Jobs has it right in simply not using Adobe software on its 
products.  According to Apple, Adobe Flash is the #1 reason Macs crash.  MS 
should probably ban Flash until Adobe gets its act together, except that if MS 
did this, people would scream that MS was trying to "take over" the Internet 
or some other nonsense.  


>Vista has it's annoyances, I've yet to see an OS that didn't, but it's
>biggest problem was bad press and slow response on the part of hardware
>manufacturers to get their drivers up to date.

Tell me.  That was the biggest problem when my users started going to Vista.  
NVidia was way behind on this.  

And then there are the companies that insist on using undocumented call hacks 
that crash when MS updates its OS.  And once again everybody blames Microsoft 
for the failings of software companies that should know better.