Windows 7: First Look

**Husar** · 10-31-2008, 01:35

Originally Posted by Caravel

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

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

Originally Posted by Caravel

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.

Originally Posted by Caravel

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.

Originally Posted by Caravel

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.

Originally Posted by Caravel

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

**caravel** · 10-31-2008, 02:06

Originally Posted by Husar

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.

I call it a problem with the game or graphics card drivers. And I'd rather know about this than have the OS just restart the driver. It's a cheap and dirty fix and doesn't help if the crash is in the middle of playing a game either.

Originally Posted by Husar

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

Hardware.

Originally Posted by Husar

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

I'm not saying one is more bugged than the other. I'm referring to the fact that people often refer to Vista's increased stability over XP as some sort of justification for having it, whereas there is no evidence that Vista is more stable than 2K, XP or 2K3. In fact if Vista was more stable I'm sure that may more companies would have switched to it for workstation use.

**seireikhaan** · 10-31-2008, 03:21

Gah. I can never figure out what these people are talking about half the time with how good a new OS will be when I can't see it in action. I'll see when it comes out.