Vista, technical questions

if we believe this test : http://rainrecording.co.uk/vista/performance
Vista fucking outperforms XP. But I don't like to rely on benchmarks found on the internet. But this is true that the graphical interface is now managed by the gpu and so let the processor disponible for other tasks.
I'd like to have thoughts and advices from people (professional or not) about audio in general and Vista.
- Does Vista really manage better multi-cores ?
- What about memory management that has been horrible, until now, XP included ?
- the new sound API, how is it ? Will there be a problem with asio4all ?
- and of course, software compatibility and stability in general, if you regret to have migrated from XP or not.

>memory management that has been horrible, until now, XP included

What exactly is so horrible about NT's memory management?


>Will there be a problem with asio4all ?

Yes. Asio4all is a horribly dirty hack. Those don't work on Vista any more because of those new "security" features.


>stability in general

Stability is about the same as all NT4 based systems. It's good if you don't experiment with drivers and you have to schedule the occasional reboot. Sorry, still no years of uptime for Windows servers.

Apart from that, it's essentially the same as XP, only your computer will feel like it's one year older than it really is and you might have to tool around with an application or two to get them to work.