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rray32539 wrote:Vista is one of the best things Microsoft has ever done.
For Apple Macintosh sales, that is! 
Oh, hahahahaha that's rich! I suppose you made it up yourself? 
Anyhow, I would advise not just reading somebody's opinion in a blog, but look to an actual news source for getting the full story...unless you're really not interested in it.
Anyhow, Intel spokespeople have stated outright (not the mysterious anonymous source or anonymous memo) that they are testing Vista and rolling out to various departments and will no doubt determine next steps from there.
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Vista is just one of those things, like taxes and health care. You can't really do anything about it if you want to buy a new comp. Despite the cute commercials PCs (imo) are a heck of a lot better than Apples, for 99% of us that is. As for the other os, if you have troubles with Vista then don't try messing around with Linus whatever flavor of it you use. I have Vista on my notebook and XP on the desktop and they both work about as well as I expect them to, as long as I can connect to WoW I am good.
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As said by Intel and it goes for me also... I see no reason to make a change. XP is fine. It used to be every two years I felt I needed a new computer and I would stretch it to three years. Now it has been four years and I see no reason not to go ten years on XP. We shall see but as long as XP works for me I am not changing no matter how good Vista or the next release is.
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My wifes cousin, and her husband both work for IBM, and IBM doesn't allow Vista on their corporate computers. And I went to my doctors office the other day, and they are still using XP Professional on their network.
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johnleveritt wrote:My wifes cousin, and her husband both work for IBM, and IBM doesn't allow Vista on their corporate computers. And I went to my doctors office the other day, and they are still using XP Professional on their network.
Upgrading an OS is very specific to that businesses refresh cycle. It's not uncommon for companies (large enterprises especially) to be slow on the uptake. I know of at least one fortune 100 company that was still running W2k as recently as a year and a half ago. businesses will adopt vista simply for the security benefits alone (which go beyond the prompts for approval on different actions).
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rray32539 wrote:Vista is one of the best things Microsoft has ever done. For Apple Macintosh sales, that is!
Though its rather funny to snicker at the comment, there is some reality to it perhaps. From Computer World June 26, "Survey: 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs which is up from 47% in 2006.
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Vista is a great OS. I prefer it to XP. It just takes a little getting used to and then you realize you just cant go back to XP.
Intel is not going to upgrade because (a) there is no COMPELLING reason (i.e. no economic benefit -- those employees are not into music and video), and (b) "it takes a little getting used to", so there is a cost associated with it.
If you are going to buy a new PC, and choose Vista. But if you already have XP and there is no measurable benefit to Vista, then why bother? i think a lot of people upgrade just to have the latest stuff. It is great to upgrade from a tube television to a plasma. But are people going to run around and upgrade to bigger plasmas with high contrast ratios? no.. same thing with vista.
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My work (several thousand workstations) has not upgraded to Vista, and they don't want to. All of our computers have half a gig of RAM, which is fine for XP, but not for Vista. Upgrading to Vista will mean upgrading all of our hardware.
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waroads wrote:
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Anyhow, I would advise not just reading somebody's opinion in a blog, but look to an actual news source for getting the full story...unless you're really not interested in it.
Anyhow, Intel spokespeople have stated outright (not the mysterious anonymous source or anonymous memo) that they are testing Vista and rolling out to various departments and will no doubt determine next steps from there.
The original source of the story was the Inquirer, which based their story on a "circulating memo" The New York Times followed up on the story and cited "a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans."
The New York Times then contacted Intel. A spokesman for the company told the Times, "An Intel spokesman said the company was testing and deploying Vista in certain departments, but not across the company."
I would imagine that Microsoft will bring right much pressue to bear on Intel, now that the story is out. Steven Ballmer and Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, meet regularly. And, Microsoft did change the "Vista Ready" requirements so that Intel could sell chips.
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It's a difficult situation - a company wants to keep up with the latest technology but it's not cheap. We see the same thing in high-end computers - those > $250,000 entry points. If the old system chugs along doing its job why change it. Unlike the 80's when money was being thrown all over the place at new computer systems (the 90'2 for PC's), today upgrades often don't happen until the support costs for the old systems exceed the cost of a new one. Strictly dollars and cents. It is business after all.
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