This journalist fellow phoned me up after my opinion on Vista as a platform for audio. I get a mention as an "expert" which is nice. His agenda appears to be to tell everyone that Vista is rubbish for audio, which is a shame because here's me writing my next Molten Meditation album on Vista. With the right software, hardware and a decent computer and provided you don't run loads of things in the background while you are recording then Vista can run brilliantly as a music production platform. My comment about the WaveRT driver is true - it's potential as yet unused - but running ASIO drivers instead is just peachy so where's the problem? His last sentence "All can lead to glitches" is simply untrue - I don't quite get what he's all upset about.

Anyway, here's the article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/ - please take with a large dose of salt.

I did a whole load more Vista audio testing comparing four different specs of machine including AMD and a laptop. You can find the results over at http://rainrecording.co.uk/vista/performance