On Saturday 10 February 2007 22:51, Peter Machell wrote: > Vista is a lot better out of the box than any MS OS before it, but > probably not more reliable than XP SP2, which is (finally) a > reasonably mature and securable system.
I'd suggest reading recent reports in the German IT magazine c't where they thoroughly dissect Vista and revise that statement Design certainly appears better than the previous windows versions, with security a bit less of an afterthought and more incorporated into core design - but implementation is still largely untested, with many bugs already known,a huge service pack already looming, and way too many API functions undocumented and apparently still changing (see eg the nVidia driver disaster) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
