Read the Vista lawsuit papers & see why Vista was so labatomized by the request of
the the likes of Dell & Intel looking to be able to sell their existing hardware
solutions. Then send you business to HP who seems to have happily bit-the-bullet &
upgraded their offerings to match original Vista requirements only to be screwed
sans-KY by the bar-lowering. Now I guess you could also say Intel is doing it again
to MS adding insult to injury after screwing Vista to begin with.
2K was not popular until a few service packs, XP same until SP2, will Vista get a
bump later in the life-cycle or become the next ME? Inquiring minds want to know!
From what I see biggest loss for me sticking with XP is lack of 64bit support thus
more memory per app & solid 64bit drivers, and maybe DX10 but all could have been
added & supported into XP with MS charging $50 for an XP version 2 similar to
95-98-9se. FWI incremental for less money would have made more sense than hobbled Vista.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I'm not a Vista fan. I agree with Intel sticking
XP. I was just pointing out why MS might be irritated with Intel.
(There is also the fact that when the biggest CPU vendor ignores your
latest OS, that's not a good sign.) Of course, MS is selling Vista with
the slogan "But you can downgrade to XP!" so clearly they aren't
enamoured of Vista either.
As to how many people are affected by my choice, I'd say I help at least
20 people per month make a decision on a computer purchase (some of
these are on purchases of 10-50 computers) so I affect at least 100
computer purchases a month directly, and problably 250 a month
indirectly. So that's at least 1200 a year. So yes, my opinion is
important, and I'm pushing my customers to stick with XP.
(Sorry I wasn't clearer on this.)
T
