Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade
For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose to
skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal.
Following a report Monday on the Inquirer, the New York Times
reported Wednesday that Intel's IT department "found no compelling
case" for upgrading. Ouch.
And that's despite the fact that it's been nearly seven years since
XP debuted. It's not a good thing, if your customers are electing to
stick with 7-year-old technology. (In fairness, XP did get a fairly
big update with Windows XP Service Pack 2, but even that is four
years old at this point.)
Microsoft, which once predicted businesses would adopt Vista at twice
the rate they moved to XP, has scaled back its ambitions and these
days talks a lot about how long the adoption curve is for businesses
when it comes to new operating systems.
