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Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace

Posted by Zonk on from the playing-the-waiting-game dept.

Chester Freeze writes "During the holiday season, many shoppers bought PCs with the promise of quick, free Vista upgrades. The reality has been something else entirely: many Dell and HP customers are being told that they won't receive their copies of Vista before April. 'One source at a major OEM who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the real issue is that OEMs are still not sure which PCs are really ready to support Vista, and which PCs aren't... Customers who qualify for an Express Upgrade also qualify for OEM support for Windows Vista, even if their machines came with Windows XP. The last thing a Dell, Gateway, or HP wants to do is start sending out upgrades to customers who might have video cards that do not have particularly stable drivers yet (or sound cards, or RAID controllers, etc.). This could be a support disaster.'"

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  1. This could be a support disaster by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, a migration from red hat to solaris would be a support disaster.

    This is IT people using a little forethought and pacing while rolling out an upgrade.

    O NOES DOOM AN GLOOM THERES ANOTHER VERSION OF WINDOWS - MS is GONNA LAP THE OSS COMMUNITY ONCE AGAIN

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  2. Re:upgrades might be slow but ... by mandelbr0t · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course the first thing any smart Vista user would do is replace IE7 with Firefox. ;)

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  3. Re:looking in the wrong place by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll
    In general you don't buy software for linux.
    So of course you won't find software for linux on amazon. You'll find it on sourceforge or using apt-get. Even looking in the CNR warehouse, most of the programs are free (most of them are the standard open source projects).

    The problem is that the warehouse looks pretty empty when you are shopping for the home.

    You want to know why Windows remains the dominant OS in this market? Then you need to know what the middle class is looking for in software. You need know why users ignore the FOSS alternative ---if it exists---and if they can find it.