Although Microsoft must certify device drivers, lots of buggy drivers are getting through the process. The best Vista drivers from ATI and nVidia are buggy as are network interface drivers, and who knows what else.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070206-8784.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=663
Same kind of thing happened when Windows 2000 came out - of course in those days Microsoft didn't have to certify the drivers. I am guessing that Microsoft is putting the highest priority on DRM compliance of drivers.
I'm not entirely surprised though, how many people at Microsoft are actually qualified to fully test and understand the inner workings of a submitted driver? Six or ten maybe? These bugs may take much longer to work out that we user would like them too.
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