Over at Engadget they have a pie chart allegedly from Microsoft that was bundled with emails and other documents in the Vista Capable lawsuit. The pie chart shows who is to blame for the crashes that cause Vista to cease functioning properly. The only problem with the chart is that it does not indicate a time frame for the year 2007.

In viewing the chart it lists NVidia as the cause of some 28.8% of crashes. Interesting for us NVidia fans who have successfully installed Vista without a problem using updated NVidia drivers. It is even more interesting since the pie chart lists two other categories that are not explained. They are All others and Unknown which together make up about 35.5% of crashes.

As a casual observer of Vista, I only have it installed on one system using a dual boot with XP, I can’t neither support nor disclaim the chart. But in looking at it as an outsider there is definitely something wrong with these statistics. First off the chart also indicates that Intel caused 8.8% of known crashes. This in itself would be self serving for Microsoft to ward off the allegations that they knew some Intel graphic cards would not work properly with Vista, except when Vista Basic was installed.

So what are All others and Unknown? This represents over 1/3 known crashes for Vista according to Microsoft. Should Vista users be better informed by Microsoft as to what these crash areas represent?

Comments welcome.

Pie chart located here.

Tags: vista, pie chart, crashes, intel, nvidia, other, unknown, microsoft