"I have been testing Microsoft operating systems since Windows 95, and this is the buggiest OS I've seen this late in development," says Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "Look at the older operating systems, and by Beta 2 there is a stable foundation on which the [independent software vendors] can build. Right now, Vista is like a ship on stormy seas."
Also according to the report, Vista's memory consumption stands at a staggering 700MB, was just reduced from a full gigabyte. That's about three times the memory requirement of Windows XP system.
And, there's not anti-virus software that works for Vista.
"Put the testing aside, I can't find a valid antivirus software that works with it," says Michael Cherry, an analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft. "That is a key application and runs at a core level. If the antivirus vendors, who work closely with Microsoft, can't get Vista working, then the core is not stable."
Please note, the report may be biased.
For more detail, please refer to
Windows Vista Beta 2 Plagued by Bugs (Top Tech News, 21 August 2006)
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) x64 operating systems will natively take up a bit more memory anyway, so Vista64 would be a nightmare.
