Intel, Microsoft’s BFF, is not going to upgrade its computers to Windows Vista. That’s hands down the most hardcore corporate rebuke of Vista yet given how tight the two are, even though the source for the info says that it’s not really “dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista.” Whatever, man.
Intel and many others–Gartner estimates a higher percentage of companies will skip Vista than the 30 percent that typically bypass a new Windows release. Windows 7 looming is no doubt a factor, but will it see a higher than average adoption rate in return? Anyone else decided to just “skip” Vista? [NYT]
feral
June 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM
I’m with Intel on this one :-)
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June 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Don’t know what all the whining is about. I’ve been using Vista Ultimate for 8 months now as my home media centre (connected to the XBOX 360 extender in the lounge) and it’s been brilliant. All my apps run on it and I have had no driver problems with printers (including a very old Kyocera laser), scanners, cameras, portable hard drives or any other USB device I have plugged in.
I upgraded from XP and simply checked all my software for compatibility before upgrading. For any that didn’t work I was just going to run it on XP in a Virtual Machine but I ended up not having to.
It saved me buying the $700 Panasonic HDD SD Recorder I was going to get.
Most of the noise about vista seems to be coming from the anti-microsoft crowd or those that have not even tried it. The argument of going to OSX because of compatibility issues doesn’t make sense as you can do exactly the same with Vista except there is even more of a learning curve with OSX due to the differences between windows and OSX.
Being the owner of an iPod I can appreciate the clean design Apple puts into it’s products but when I borrowed a friends macbook to knock up a presentation while we were away in the country I was lost when trying to do things. This is not knocking the product but merely an example of how I found it hard to switch between the windows and OSX worlds.
Look if people want to swap to OSX or Linux then that’s their choice (hopefully made based on facts) but most of this noise about vista is simply that, noise! For my purposes vista works very well.
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