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In a horrible case of world wide lack of good reporting, it’s being reported widely now that Nvidia is responsible for 29 percent of (logged) Vista Crashes - ATI only 9 percent and Microsoft 18 percent.

Of course this is bad, and it doesn’t help very much to say that Nvidia has about 33 percent marketshare, versus ATI’s 19. It’s still bad.

But everyone seems to be very easily glossing over the real crying shame in this story. No less than 18 percent of crashes are caused by software and drivers that Microsoft wrote themselves. It took them like 2,000 years to create this thing, and they still couldn’t make sure they cause fewer crashes than Intel and ATI combined? Microsoft, what’s up with that?

This story seems to be no more than Microsoft spin, trying to take some of the heat off for their horrible patch job.

Well, you can’t blame them. They’ve been getting a lot of bad press, so I guess they had to try something.