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Originally Posted by Omaroo
I've found Vista to be extremely stable too, runs everything I need (except Canon drivers, which is Canons' fault, not MS) and is generally a pleasure to use on a decently fast machine with enough memory.
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I've got a fast enough system with plenty of ram. But I do a bit of hardware/software development and not all of the drivers and software required for that is supported under Vista (examples:
here, and
here), so it's a complete show-stopper for me.
In fact Vista x64 requires
mandatory signing of drivers, making it a problem for some open-source projects as many don't have the resources (financial or time) to jump through Microsoft's hoops to get digital signatures, even though their drivers are rock solid and work fine in Vista x64 in development/debug mode.
Call all of this the developer's fault, Microsoft's fault, whatever - it makes no difference to me who to blame as an end-user/developer. Bottom line is it prevents me from doing what I want to do (hardware/software development), so I stick to XP until the situation improves.
Simple as that
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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
Another downgrade ....
Another version of Windows I wont bother buying or installing.
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Even though I haven't been a fan of a few of Microsoft's products, I think that's a bit of a negative and biased opinion considering the final version isn't out yet for people to judge.