I have an Nvidia board and had exactly the same quicktime/ itunes issues, BSOD’ s and stuttering under Vista. My fix was to go into device manager and find“ Nvidia Nforce serial ATA controller” and then right click and select update driver softwa…

I remember testing the live services on the web and giving feedback as soon as we got to it. Lot’s of my feedback got taken seriously and some parts of it are added right away. Incompatible with google chrome? A week later, MS fixed it (untill chrome was updated again wich destroyed it again).

So many things I liked and suggested over the years got added in the 2009 release. And we testers are able to simply start a chat at any time with one of the Windows Live developers, and give our feedback. Not just offline messaging, but direct response.

I know some feedback got not fixed in the RTM release, but as MS explained most of those things barelly got used. That not a way to simply leave the bug there, but other things got more priority.

In the Windows Beta, you get NO usefull replies, serious issues (like UAC) never got taken seriously, or even heard. Only after like 5 HUGE threats they could take 2 minutes of their time telling it was by design. Like if we didn’t know that already.

In the past few years I learned two things. Get in personal contact with the developers when possible, 2nd make noice about important issues not taken seriously.