I’ve been using Vista for a while now. Despite all the glitches I still prefer it to XP.
However the scariest failing is the occasional loss of data. It seems this only occurs if the system crashes. The usual symptom is that files disappear. This never happened to my knowledge with XP.
So back-up! – Our favourite tool is SyncbackSE published by 2BrightSparks (www.2brightsparks.com)
Incidentally I only have one situation where my system crashes – this occurs when using my share monitoring software Sharescope and I go to download the latest data.
There’s more detail from Robin Harris of ZDNet at How Microsoft puts your data at risk
