Sadly the above Chart is mine, from my M1210 Running Windows Vista Ultimate

Each Red X equals a significant failure like an Application crashing or a blue screen.

Yesterday for example Windows Vista Ultimate blue screened twice, one was caused by an inbound remote desktop connection and the other by visiting a web page.

During a blue screen you lose everything you have open.

Twice is unusual but does not fill me with confidence, both seem unrelated.

From the 10th of August to the 10th of September 2007 I have had 14 such failures

Only 2 were severe enough to cause Blue Screens

12 Application instances that stopped working were:-

Internet Explorer

Explorer (as in Windows)

LVPrcSrv.exe (This is the logitech web cam software). I don’t use it but it is running all the time.

I have to compare this user experience to my Windows XP Pro desktop I run in tandem. This machine has experienced no problems in the same period.

Note to any helpful Microsoftie Please put me me forward for the the Windows Vista SP1 Beta. (colindiponio@gmail.com)

Coming to think about it, using Windows Vista feels like being in a really long Beta.

When SP1 comes out of Beta I am going to rebuild my machine and fingers crossed it turns out to be stable.

Business users should draw their own conclusions about which is more stable XP or Vista.