I think the problems I see are Red Hat/Fedora specific (haven't used Windows 7, and only used Vista for two days when my wife got a new laptop before we could install Ubuntu on it). All the other OSes I use regularly (Debian, Ubuntu, AIX, Solaris) are fine...
For me (aka, "anecdote") I'd say XP was stable after SP2 came out, save for one or two exotic issues on my first-generation UMPC that were ironed out in SP3.
Windows 7 has always been rock-stable on my desktop, impressively so given that it's home built by a hack-amateur like me.
Win7 does flake out on my third(?)-generation UMPC but that's likely because the hardware was built around XP and then modified to run Win7 by a third party. It'd be much more stable if the OEM would release a proper Win7 driver for the touchscreen... but they don't seem to have much incentive to do so.
-- Steve can see how "roll-your-own" OSes will retain stability issues long after others have solved the problem; so much more variability in hardware and OS configurations to take into account, it's a much more complex problem.
Yeah - crashes nowadays largely seem to be driver-related. I'm most impressed that Windows can nowadays replace a graphics driver while it's running without the machine falling in a big heap.
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Windows 7 has always been rock-stable on my desktop, impressively so given that it's home built by a hack-amateur like me.
Win7 does flake out on my third(?)-generation UMPC but that's likely because the hardware was built around XP and then modified to run Win7 by a third party. It'd be much more stable if the OEM would release a proper Win7 driver for the touchscreen... but they don't seem to have much incentive to do so.
-- Steve can see how "roll-your-own" OSes will retain stability issues long after others have solved the problem; so much more variability in hardware and OS configurations to take into account, it's a much more complex problem.
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