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On Vista security, a major chunk of it was intended to stop "bad guys." Before and after the release date, Steve Ballmer made many claims about how Vista was more secure than any previous Windows, and would prevent many malicious attacks. Here is one of them, collected from vnunet.com: "Subject to the fact that there might still be a small amount of human error, we will have eliminated the known attack vectors that people use against us today." (Steve Ballmer, 2006, on Vista's security advantages) So, while some may help prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot, their marketing did focus on how Vista is more immune to malware. The claims were very misleading.
As for the drivers, I agree with you that the 3rd party groups are partially to blame. They aren't doing enough to prevent compatibility and reliability issues. However, if a company gets manufacturers to include a new product by default on computers they sell, removing an older stable product, one would hope they made sure the new product worked with most software. Microsoft always claimed they do testing across the board for compatibility, so how did they miss the bugs in so many major apps, then require Vista to be default anyway? Heck, most technicians I talk to can't even get many previous Microsoft products to work on anything but Ultimate, making them suspect a forced upgrade of software is in progress... especially to Office 2007, which works flawlessly.
I agree that Microsoft is not totally responsible, and I agree that their failure to deal with these troubles is hurting their image. You were right that the original XP had similar problems. I was aware of that, figuring that Vista had trouble just because it was new, which is why I didn't return laptop: others with different brands having same troubles, and I figured after a few months with patches, etc. problems would mostly go away. Got a little better, problems still severe. Maybe it is because I broke my rule about software: always wait for at least the second release to buy it, or else problems will be many. With windows, I always wait until SP1 minimum, SP2 preferrably. I used Win2kSP3 until WinXPSP2, and my migration was great. Will downgrade, but keep Vista on side for testing purposes: I will not make the mistake with my software that these other 3rd party publishers made... it will be compatible.
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