Vindictive fingers now point at Nvidia in Vista-capable lawsuit
By Triston McIntyre
I think we can all agree at this point in time that Microsoft is sitting not-so-pretty in a pot of boiling water over the whole “Vista-capable” debacle. Though the bundle of corporate emails originally seemed to indicate that Intel was the bully responsible for the early release of Vista and the ensuing disaster of a marketing strategy, continued research has shown that graphical giant Nvidia has had the most adverse affect on Vista operating systems thus far.
That isn’t discounting the obviously underhanded way in which Microsoft slipped “Vista-capable” onto plenty of new computers built on the Intel 915 chipset to make sure Vista’s launch wasn’t pushed back any further; however, 28.8% of all Vista crashes are related to inconsistencies in Nvidia drivers, reports Ars Technica.
In fact, Intel falls in 5th place on the Vista crash-causing list behind other big wigs like ATI, Microsoft (who can’t apparently get its own drivers right for its own shiny OS), Nvidia, and others. Nvidia’s driver issues are related to poor attempts to transition its G80 architecture from Windows XP to Vista. Obviously, over time driver issues should be rectified in a prudent manner; however, data reveals that Vista crashes occurred consistently in 2007 from Nvidia driver issues.
This is just more evidence that Microsoft tried to rush Vista out the door before it could get its shoes on; as Vista’s release was on such a massive scale, there were of course bound to be issues with 3rd party support. Microsoft is no stranger to dodging accusations on how it handles 3rd party issues.
Hopefully this will chalk up as another short sight on Microsoft’s behalf, and the court will reach a fair and just decision as to what Microsoft will have to do to rectify the Vista debacle.
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