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Intel Says No to Upgrading to Vista

Techtree News Staff, Jun 27, 2008 1800 hrs IST

The general apprehension is that Vista having been slow in penetrating the corporate world, soon it would be time for the release of Windows 7.

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Intel has decided that it will not upgrade its company's systems to Microsoft Windows Vista, and will instead continue using Windows XP -- reports doing rounds of the Internet seem to suggest.

The reports say that Intel carried out analyses in different departments to find out the usefulness of shifting to Vista. Their final decision seems to suggest that the company didn't find Vista useful enough, at least not for now. However, an Intel spokesperson reportedly said that the company is testing and deploying Windows Vista in certain departments.

Vista has been slow in penetrating the corporate world, and soon it would be time for Windows 7 to be released (expected to release in 2010). Intel's decision only corroborates that apprehension.

It is believed that a prominent factor for large and small enterprises not to adopt Vista is that the system requires a lot of memory as well as expensive hardware upgrades. Microsoft and Intel have a history together, which apparently, includes the latter dismissing an immediate adoption of the latest Microsoft system in the past as well. We're referring to when Windows XP was launched, and Intel decided to hold on to Windows 2000 refusing to utilize it in the organization for all of its employees. Interestingly, Intel and Microsoft together control almost 80 percent of the global personal computing market.

USER COMMENTS

Most don't upgrade to vista as they are yet to see a performance advantage or enhancement over XP . but as more and more software start getting vista ready be it eye candy ness or etc the opinion would change. I have been using vista on my Dell Xps along with Gentoo n also tried osx86. Vista does its job pretty well n have had 0 spyware or virus yet thanks to vista's enhanced security over xp . I admire MS for the fact that they have played a strong part in driving the hardware industry 4gb ram n 256mb vram on my laptop was simply unimaginable 5yr back considering the lappy costs ~50k MS sure would have been the critics favourite hads OSX been dominant.the grass is greener on the other side

by vinay, mumbai, on Jun 28, 2008 05:24 PM, Report abuse Reply

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by ashish sharma, delhi, on Aug 08, 2008 01:01 PM, Report abuse

Vista is terrible

by james, mundelein, on Jun 27, 2008 08:06 PM, Report abuse Reply

If you're saying Vista is "Terrible" you have either done one of three things: 1. Upgraded from XP - same with XP upgrade from windows 2K - it doesn't work. "Why?" Because for an OS upgrade you need new drivers, and if you don't have new drivers for that OS, then it will not function correctly - not to mention you could have spyware, not even know it, and during the install the registry gets fucocked. 2. You built a new rig with it, and didn't check for hardware compatibility, and thus either have the rig under powered, or are not using compatible hardware. 3. You've never used Vista a day in your life. I have run Vista on my rig, I built the rig specifically to run Vista. 2GB of memory, a slew of large harddisks, a Dual Core CPU, and an Nvidia 7600GT w/256MB video memory. Even that only merits me a 3.6 to 4.0 depending on how I tweak the memory in overclocking. Considering the top score is a 5.0, this shows that Vista is not crap, or terrible, it's just like with XP - hardware needs to catch up. When XP came out, and they said that you should have a recommended 512MB of ram, people were ranting and raving, claiming it was too much to upgrade to, or that their system didn't support it. If your system can't support at least 2GB of Ram... DON'T USE VISTA!

by Jordan Eilbert, Hauppauge, NY, on Jun 27, 2008 08:45 PM, Report abuse

depends on what youve used it for.... if i use it with Visual Studio or Cygwin when im actually working.... its not good at all. but for graphics intensive apps like Games and Autodesk animation/Modelling Software it really gives beter performance than XP and @the other reply dude build a rig to do some work i mean actual work....not to run vista, your system isnt that hot to brag about in the first place and what have you really used the os for running office, copying files and folders, and downloading...?. Sheesh...! Ive used My M-16 Rifle to play softball on sunday mornings.... i really think its a marvelous product ...!

by Kurei, Gurgaon, on Jun 28, 2008 07:27 PM, Report abuse

i second the first reply. it just needs the proper hardware. remember even XP had this kind of problems in the beginning.

by dentregym, cefnarioogo, on Jul 01, 2008 09:37 PM, Report abuse

Some of the worst reporting on this I've seen. Intel simply said they ARE rolling out Vista as they refresh their PC-base. Some departments are the pilots. Eventually, Intel will roll out Vista. Large companies take time to do these things, and Vista does require IT departments to insure that all the corporate apps work with it properly.

by Craig, Houston, TX, on Jun 30, 2008 10:07 PM, Report abuse Reply

Interesting, I built a Vista rig but it is only used for gaming all my other computing is done on a Mac. I admit Vista is a piece of bloatware.

by Glenn Reynolds, Massillon, on Jun 27, 2008 07:50 PM, Report abuse Reply

Intresting enough use vista and Mac OS X on a daily basis, in my opinion vista is great and runs very smooth. My mac is the biggest piece of crap. The thing has more problems than my windows 95 machine. I think Vista is much better than Mac OS X.

by tone, san Francisco, on Jun 27, 2008 08:01 PM, Report abuse

I have my Vista installed since Jan 07, HP printer drivers and the Hauppage Pvr drivers where my only compatiblitiy issues. My first experience has been a pleasure with th OS. Faster, sleeker looking and strong defenses against those script kiddies out there. Bloatware hardly. Dell HP and the OEM put the bloatware in, someone even developed a Decrapifier for Dell computers for this purpose. A clean install is a pleasure. Resources are alloted to your desire and startups are quick.

by Crash, usa, on Jun 27, 2008 08:56 PM, Report abuse

upgrading to vista=disaster installing vista from scratch=great vista is a great OS... just really didn't bring enough "new" with it... mostly eye candy... not really worth what microsoft wants to charge... but it is the best OS you can get at the moment.

by Zap, Camden, SC, on Jun 27, 2008 08:31 PM, Report abuse Reply

On a futher note, to answer more critics, according to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft has always allowed the OEM builders to downgrade for customers if the so wish. It has been HP Dell Toshiba Gateway Sony and others to make the choice of when to not offer downgrades. Think about it folks Microsoft sells the OS anyway. Why not allow for a customers nastalgia or preference. Dont jump all over these things like the sky is falling. Windows is do very well and will be the player for the forseeable future.

by Crash, usa, on Jun 27, 2008 08:29 PM, Report abuse Reply

Um this is not accurate, They are pursuing a limited launch of Vista. Futhermore this really is not unexpected. They are following the same time line they did when XP came out, did not adopt until after SP2 came out. By the numbers that is about 2.5 years after XP was realeased.

by Crash, usa, on Jun 27, 2008 08:24 PM, Report abuse Reply

It seems Microsoft has forgotten rule #1 - the customer is always right. Customers are demanding XP. They will get it.

by Joe C., Dallas, on Jun 27, 2008 07:51 PM, Report abuse Reply

good for them

by jules goulet, chisasibi que, on Jun 27, 2008 07:05 PM, Report abuse Reply