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Stuart · 16-12-2006, 20:48

In fairness to Microsoft, if the manufacturers of devices haven't written drivers, it's not their fault. Vista entered testing a long time ago. They've had time to write drivers. Bear in mind that Microsoft stopped writing drivers for other manufacturer's devices in 1992 or 1993.

As for the bug testing, a modern OS is so complicated that it is not possible to say it is *ever* bug free. This applies to Linux, Unix and Mac OSX as well.

Microsoft conduct the largest beta tests in the industry (more testers). Unfortunately, the bugs that get through are more newsworthy than the ones they fix.

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Sneeky MS In fairness to Microsoft, if the manufacturers of devices haven't written drivers, it's not their fault. Vista entered testing a long time ago. They've had time to write drivers. Bear in mind that Microsoft stopped writing drivers for other manufacturer's devices in 1992 or 1993. As for the bug testing, a modern OS is so complicated that it is not possible to say it is ever bug free. This applies to Linux, Unix and Mac OSX as well. Microsoft conduct the largest beta tests in the industry (more testers). Unfortunately, the bugs that get through are more newsworthy than the ones they fix.