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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. We all saw it comming!!!! by wpemt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does anyone recall a little abonmenation named ME? windows ME Millennium released by windows??? like an actual computer virus in giuse of an Os?!!!! Use Lynx!!!!!

  2. Re:Preaching to the choir by killjoe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks for the MS view. I am sure they appreciate it very much.

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    evil is as evil does
  3. Vista is too much by Pliep · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yes I am a happy Mac user but no, not a fanboi. I haven't tried Vista, still hang on to XP at work and in Parallels virtualisation.

    The only reason why I dislike Vista in the first place is the HUGE amount of different versions you can buy.

    As a consumer I get sick of all the different ISP's, cell-phone plans, insurance plans etc and now if I want to buy a new OS AGAIN I have to choose between 10 versions of Vista. Why? Why on earth? What do all these versions do and why do I need to do research into that before I can buy?

    I guess this is much too confusing for non-savvy normal consumers.