Windows Vista

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007, Transpower wrote:
>This is, more or less, for John, who's hot to trot to install Vista. 
>Please make sure there is a Vista driver for your video card.  Chances 
>are, there isn't one--yet.

This article goes into these issues in depth:

	http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

>Even on Windows XP machines, the video drivers are constantly updated. 
>On my Windows XP machine I have an ATI Radeon 7500 card--a popular card 
>and one you'd think would have a very stable driver.  No such luck.  ATI 
>keeps revising it.  Why?  Because the original and many subsequent 
>versions were unstable--they would cause the computer to freeze.  The 
>current driver is working very well, finally!  But I'd be hesitant to 
>install Vista without some assurance that the new video driver would be 
>stable.

Let's see.  XP has been around since August 2001 or so.  One would think
that the driver writers would have been able to get it right in six years
or so.  Perhaps the problem is Microsoft's constantly changing things under
the hood that break working drivers.  Then again, having the video drivers
in the kernel is simply asking for trouble.

Bill
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