Windows 7: First Look

[Husar]

1) A "bluescreen" isn't a bug.

No, it's just the OS saying that it cannot solve a problem without restarting.

2) I've had this copy of XP running now for about 3 years and never seen a BSoD yet.

I didn't see them often but Earth 2160 for example created one everytime I shut down the game, think it was a graphics driver issue but Vista just restarts the driver in that case, not the whole system, I call that an improvement.

3) Seeing a BSoD isn't a problem in itself it's usually an indicator of an underlying problem, usually related to defective/overheating hardware or buggy device drivers.

Yes.

4) BSoDs in XP are disabled by default, the OS reboots. I have always disabled the reboot option and have still never seen a BSoD on any XP machine except where defective/overheating hardware or buggy device drivers were the culprit. Usually the former and usually memory in particular.

Some people report problems with Vista that I haven't had either.

5) There is no evidence to show that there are somehow "more bugs in XP than in Vista".

But I constantly see people claim that Vista is worse anyway, maybe next time I should just demand objective proof for that. Though I'm perfectly aware that counting bugs in an OS is some kind of almost insolvable task.
Besides, I said worse bugs, not more