One of the contracts we have in at work is a well known instant messaging, email and search offshoot of a well known monopolithic software company that produces operating systems, and we have 60 Vista and 60 XP desktops and 20 mac desktops on that contract

We have had boxed vista for several months - due to the contract being for the organisation that developed it, and it has given very few problems so far. Thats even running a famously ropey MS developed CRM utility that hogs all available RAM

The macs are a lot more buggy than the vista and XP machines - the mac support guy has a full time job running after the minority of agents.

Bar one driver issue im having for xp64 its all fine and dandy and support for 64bit and 32bit apps is good

(Btw im looking for a driver for my monitor a Hansol 920P)

Drivers for my shuttle where avaliable online in both 32 and 64 that made life very easy

Come on, XP is one of the most stable OSs Ive ever used. When was the last time it actually crashed? I cant remember. Obviously dont criticize if youre running pirate ridden trojan filled crap all over your computer. But thats not the fault of MS.

Going OT slightly, I agree 100% with Sam. In fact, Ive never really had any stability issues since Win 95, nothing that a little hardware / driver tweaking didnt fix anyway.

Must admit most problems Ive ever had with XP have been my own fault. I find it really stable and frankly am in no rush to leave it just yet.

Were any of you using xp from release though, I remember when xp was fairly unstable, especially when it came to hardware.

Also xp was pretty much 2k with a new skin and media functions. Most of the operating system bugs had been removed with 2k, which had already gotten a couple of service packs under its belt.

The fact that there are so many bugs in vista considering the amount of stuff they left out is slightly worrying, it isnt that much of an upgrade really, this just is xp with upgraded graphics and media.