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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