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Is Windows Vista in Trouble?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shooting-feet dept.

Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"

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  1. Re:Why Upgrade at all? by dattaway · · Score: 5, Informative

    XP doesn't fully support the latest Vista technology:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeware

  2. Re:Why Upgrade at all? by shihonage · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually XP didn't introduce gaming APIs - Windows 2000 can run all the games XP can, except for those which specifically check for Windows version. XP's innovations over Windows 2K were proper Hyperthreading support and Cleartype.

  3. Re:You got it wrong by fimbulvetr · · Score: 5, Informative

    While you are certainly right about how coke from Mexico has sugar, I think you may be wrong about the corn syrup thing.

    I've always read that it has more to do with the fact that (cane) sugar is substantially cheaper than corn syrup/beat sugar. As such, most places outside of the US use cane sugar. The reason the US uses corn syrup is because we have high tariffs on imported cane sugar - enough so that corn syrup/beat sugar is more economically viable in the states.

    I am willing to be corrected, however.

  4. Re:Now if only... by lessthanjakejohn · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Crap isn't on the windows CD dell gives you... the only change between retail and dell ms cd is drivers and a dell logo for support link

    So you would wipe it with the cd dell gives you...

  5. Re:You got it wrong by Gizzmonic · · Score: 5, Informative

    High fructose corn syrup (and the ethanol boondoggle, for that matter) wouldn't exist without the corn subsidies encouraging farmers to grow corn syrup. The stiff restrictions on sugar imports have something to do with it too.

    But Coca-Cola had already switched most of its bottlers to high fructose corn syrup before the formula changed. So...the conspiracy theory about sugar vs. high fructose corn syrup really doesn't make sense.

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