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September 28, 2007
Vista Avoision
When I recently purchased a new Dell tower, I carefully selected from amongst their product lines that were still shipping with Windows XP/Pro, not Vista. I had thought my self a bit of a luddite at the time but a spate of recent articles indicates that the general feeling toward Vista is far worse than I had thought. I am it seems, not alone. Examples:
- Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
From the CNet news site, in this article Don Reisinger offers Microsoft the unlikely to be accepted advice to just cut bait on Vista. - Microsoft to Extend Windows XP Sales As Vista Concerns Mount
This morning we have this one from InformationWeek about how MS has had to extend the life of XP for at least five more months.
And there’re more. Most of today’s articles are running with the XP service life extension news but the upshot is that Vista is hardly wowing the masses. While several business are sited by MS as having rapidly adopted Vista, I know of none personally. Every contact I have in the IT world appears to be happy to stay with XP for the foreseeable future.
For myself, it seems a pretty simple decision. It appears to me that Microsoft is offering me an expensive new system that consumes lots more resources while providing at best a very marginal improvement on the reasonably solid performance offered by XP. Just how do I come out ahead by making the “upgrade”? I simply don’t see it.
Filed under: Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
Posted by eric at September 28, 2007 09:09 PM