Will XP SP3 Slow Vistas Adoption?
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Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the older operating system, some analysts say.
Microsoft quietly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security to protect its large installed base of business customers still running XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new Vista operating system.
But the more secure, stable and reliable XP is, the less reason they have to upgrade in a hurry.
"XP SP3 does lengthen the useful life of XP. People don't like to move, particularly IT folks, and anything that makes it so they don't feel they have to move will be well received and delay that move," Rob Enderle, the principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told eWeek.
In addition, Windows XP is now on its third service patch and by any measure very mature, while Vista is only reaching its initial level of acceptable maturity with SP1, which is expected to be released in March, Enderle said.
Michael Cherry, the lead analyst for Windows at Directions on Microsoft agrees, saying that many customers are quite satisfied with Windows XP and that the release of a third service pack should only increase its stability and reliability.
"It also seems to run on older hardware—being less resource dependent than Vista is. Therefore it would appear many customers could be quite happy to stay with Windows XP for some time," he said.
XP SP3 will also make support easier, and it could be the delivery vehicle for some new features such as support for the Network Access Protection client that works with Windows Server 2008, Cherry said.
Microsoft declined to comment.
While Chris Swenson, the director of software industry analysis for the NPD Group does not agree that XP SP3 is likely to slow down the adoption of Vista, he does acknowledge that the many businesses with older PCs will roll out SP3.
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Comments(12)
vista will not be adopted because it is poor programming to begin with. it has drm
infection and spyware baked so deep in it its not even funny. lets not forget 'user
friendly' features like uac, protected mode in ie 7 etc. it has a cpu and memory
footprint 10x that of xp. anyone using it is fooling themselves, it is not worthy.
whatever vole throws at us we will swallow. thats sad but its true. if they took win 3.1
and changed its name in vista still there will be some people with "this is great"
expression on ther face. we are like zombies..
i used one of my low end pc for xp and high end pc for vista. no problem, no complain, no
headache, no blah blah blah...
does ubuntu come with a grammar correcter?
about 345 megs in size
must not be mine either because i misspelled "corrector" doh!
allah is great! he set it free
vista ultimate 64 sp1
works great with dual core at 3.2 ghz
4 gb ram
no
problems at all fast and stable and all programs work fast and great. i understand that
people with old systems stay with xp.
you cant use 4 gb memory in xp. bios
takes memory and your soundcard and grafik card takes memory. so your internal memory is
just around 3 gb.
you're on friggin' crack. how can a bios, graphic card (that uses dedicated ram, not
shared. if shared it'd use a 25% at best) and sound card use 1 gb of ram altogether?
that's enough bullshit to fill the madison square garden
xp cannot use more
than 3 gb of ram because that's how it's coded (it's actually around 3.15 gb), but in
vista it'd take all of the 4 gb because that's how it's coded.
don't be
such a dork and write what you actually know, if you know anything at all. we don't need
any more m$ fanboys.
vista will slow xp's adoption.
y r ppl fighting to go back to lame ass xp its gay tho jus cuz it has more drivers
vista is better faster more stable u can do alot more acualy aslo u can change the look
everyones gonna have to be forced to go to vista any way all new computers u buy r being
shipped wit vista so ya its allready a reality u gotta have vista even if u wwanna go buy
a new pc lol pretty soon u wont be able to downgrade wit a new pc any way they wont let
u wit the new hardware they have in them lol so vista is good for me i lov it
when it's out !!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanna install it on my ahtlon x2 4000+ :d
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Vista's poor programming
By Gamer on 22.02.2008 - 03:02