Originally Posted by ShenBlade
Are you familiar with the whole license pricing of microsoft for the various business'? Microsoft makes far more money from business than they do for home users and as such, focus will always remain more on business users.
I quote from my humble technical support experience of working with xp home/xp pro/vista home premium/vista ultimate/vista business and my 5 years of IT technical support in a financial and multimedia industry testing and supporting with suppliers/in-house programs/bloomberg/datastream/office 2007 and office 2003/data storage for a SME of 300 people.
I know it might be strange to you, but I have compared performance issues of various OS for stability. Unfortunately, I have found vista ultimate to be far more stable than vista business when doing comparisons as well as XP home and XP Pro. this is just my humble experience, so if you have had nothing but smooth sailing in your experience, then thats good but my recommendation will still stand based on my past experience
and it's anecdotal "experience" like this which fills the tech market with all kinds of utter bollocks, misinforming people into buying things that are completely inappropriate for them
you're just plain wrong, i'm afraid. there is NO difference between versions of vista for inherent stability. they use the same kernel and drivers, and have only minor userland differences (e.g. one comes with the media center app, one doesn't). anecdotes relating to who has what buggy driver and spyware on which base os are irrelevant
correlation does not imply causation