Total Vistaster
by John Paczkowski
Posted on June 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM PT
“Vista is built for businesses,” Brad Goldberg, Microsoft’s (MSFT) general manager for Windows product management, once said. And that may be so. It’s just not built for Intel’s (INTC) business. Because the chip-maker has decided against upgrading to Vista–ever.
“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans told the New York Times.
Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista. If that’s not a diss, then neither is “Windows Vista sucks.” Because if one half of the Wintel hegemony is balking at deploying the latest iteration of the OS on which it’s built, well that’s pretty ugly.
“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft,” longtime Windows development chief Jim Allchin said in January of 2004. And so too, perhaps, would Intel, if it wasn’t partners with the company.
Comments
Many people don’t know that you can still go to a system builder — build-to-order boutique shops — and have a custom PC built with XP as your OS. System builders can continue shipping PCs with XP well into 2009. There’s a lot of confusion out there, not everyone knows there are still options (other than switching to Mac!).
Posted by Kevin Bourke at June 26th, 2008 at 1:18 pm