On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:01:00PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: >> When it comes down to it, Vista had 3 problems at launch: >> >> 1. Poor hardware support at Launch (Windows 7 also ahs this, but not >> _quite_ as bad as Vista). This is totally not MS's fault as Vista >> beta's were available via MSDN long before launch. > > Doesn't mean the betas would run on just any hardware, or were stable > with respect to the hardware they would run on. > > A lot of the problem was an attempt to make Vista secure versus media > copying, and this had to be extended to the drivers and was not ideally > well explained by Microsoft to the folks writing drivers. > > -- Graydon
I'd have to disagree there. That almost entirely affected display drivers, which was one area where Vista really never had much in the way of issues even at launch. That idiocy was also forced on MS by the RIAA. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
