Re: A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP

"leapfrog vista" <> wrote in message
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> even on a 4 core with 4 gigs of ram vista is noticeably slower than XP
>
> I dual boot and Im comparing the 2...
>
> its not a coincidence why most of the world think Vista is a piece of ****
> and are avoiding it
>
> Vista IS ****.

I will not argue that Vista is ****. Nor will I argue 1/3rd of new home PCs
are downgraded. But I might add more than 90% of business PCs are
downgraded.

Adoption of Vista in business is the almost the worst in Microsoft's history
of OS releases including MS-DOS as a rate of adoption. Only WinMe is worse,
and it was because it was easier to bypass having WinMe as you could still
get Win95.

But that is Microsoft marketing for you, have a crappy OS, need to sell it,
close off new sales of bundled XP to force customers to either caught up
more money for a OEM XP downgrade or live with Vista. Business has more
clout and often are shipped with XP.