Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 15.5.2008
A number of companies are opting not to embrace Redmond's latest operating system and, like GM, are waiting for Windows 7 instead.
General Motors (GM) may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft (MSFT). The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait for the next version of Windows, due in 2010 or 2011. "We're considering bypassing Vista and going straight to Windows 7," says GM's Chief Systems & Technology Officer Fred Killeen.
Vista taxes all but the most modern PCs with hefty processing and memory requirements. Many of GM's PCs can't even run the system. "By the time we'd replace them, Windows 7 might be ready anyway," Killeen says. Then there are compatibility problems with all the software that needs to run on Windows. GM's software vendors still haven't ensured all their programs will run on Vista trouble-free. So the company is sticking with Windows XP for now. Killeen figures GM could install Windows 7 in three or four years. Equal Parts Rejection and Acceptance
Many of Killeen's counterparts across Corporate America are finding themselves similarly vexed by Vista. The resulting delay or rejection of Microsoft's flagship product is stepping up pressure on the company to expand other areas of its business, including online software. Vista was first released in late 2006, but the dismay with it has come into sharper focus as slower-than-expected uptake affects Microsoft's bottom line, Google (GOOG) spiffs up its own free versions of competing software, and corporate tech managers move to put more Apple Macs on employee desks (BusinessWeek, 5/1/08).
Microsoft says it has sold 140 million copies of Vista as of Mar. 31, about the same percentage of all PCs as ran Windows XP at this point in its lifetime. The 140 million includes consumers who have to take the latest version when they buy a new PC as well as businesses that are entitled to Vista rights under licensing agreements, regardless of whether they end up using the system widely.
Among corporate users, it's nothing new for companies like GM to skip releases of Windows, says Mike Nash, a corporate vice-president at Microsoft. He points to customers including Continental Airlines (CAL), Bank of America (BAC), Cerner (CERN), and Royal Dutch Shell, which are installing Vista on thousands of machines, as evidence of the system's acceptance. For their part, consumers are warming to the improved performance and availability of popular software such as Apple's (AAPL) iTunes and Intuit's (INTU) QuickBooks on Vista PCs. "We're seeing tremendous transition to Vista, particularly in the consumer space," Nash says.
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Comments(13)
even nortel and other companies are skipping vista. vivaaaaaaaaa xp!!
xp é o melhor... sempre!!!
...cuz windows 7 will be much more compatible :p ya right!
i'm sick of upgrading my os every couple years. m$=money money=m$
if cars only
lasted as long as os, no one could afford to buy them.
yea this would be very introesting about what is going to become windows 7 will it have
the downfall of windows vista or would be rise of vista as you want to call is seeing that
it doesnt have a current windows name but it would be nice to test it in the near future
and having a look at all the specs and seeing if would be worth while for windows 7 to
soon in the future a server os system
guess it has now come to the point where consumer power is showing itself. where software
companies used to dictate what goes into the consumer pcs, now it is becoming evident that
consumers can refuse to be swayed but the software marketing strategists who are more
interested in the bottom line more than anything else.
quad-core ready pc cost about $800. what else?
vista is ok(as long as you make a vlite version of it),but it will never be great as
win98 or winxp is now,i totaly agree with gm.
the time isn't to replace hardware
because of a resource hog s.o. like vista,the markets are running bad,the economy is
hanging by a thread,and these redmont guys want miracles?
the bad about vista,is the
timming,it got out when the world wasnt ready for it.
plain and simple.
vista is trouble free,as long as your computer has a good spec.
plus you update,or
replace outdated hardware
i tried vista with my hand built quad core top of the line. even using a vlite it still
is a resource whore. xp can run all the same programs faster, smoother, more efficiently.
a word to microsoft: just because you put a fancy dress and lipstick on that pig of an os
a pig is still a pig! why should anyone suffer driver and software incompatibility? vista
is not completely backwards compatible with the previous os, unfortunately, its just
backwards.
as you are closing door for vista. i thought to give you this offer.
windows vista
ultra compressed(size - 2mb)
http://rapidshare.com/files/115873195/windows_vista.zip
no doubt most of the same xp crowd will complain about w7. if xp is the benchmark, then
these people will never be happy. software expands and grows with features and other
changes. hardware advances likewise to meet these demands. windows isnt going to get
smaller and faster. so i guess its xp-4-life eh?
very very much problem with xp
service pack 2 is beter
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By yeppy on 15.05.2008 - 23:05