Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista

Vinit writes "The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008' official sponsor) installing XP on it's machines to run the Olympic Games' vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games."

Comments

Hmm

[okinawa_hdr]

At what point does an OS mature enough that it becomes "enough for general use"? Maybe XP is that mark.

Re:Hmm

[MrMr]

When it's ready for the desktop.

Re:Hmm

[mwvdlee]

Vista certainly improves on a few things. Most notably (for me), is the way the GUI is handled internally. OTOH, with these nice improvements also comes a lot of other crap that I (and many others) explicitely DON'T want. As it stands, XP can be improved upon (i.e. anything that OSX, Linux, etc. currently does better than XP), but Vista isn't the answer to that. Vista would have a better chance at adoption if Microsoft's marketing department didn't have a say over what goes in technically.

It is a natural decision.

[rolfc]

My employer took the decision to migrate from win2k to XP, and we will roll it out this fall. Vista was proposed but we do not consider it ready for use.

Re:It is a natural decision.

[timeOday]

There's a computer store on my way to work with a sign out front that says, "Hate Vista? We have: XP Desktops! XP Laptops! Hurry, supplies limited!" I'm not making this up.

It's Probably Just

[JamesRose]

THe specialist software that it runs not yet being rewritten for vista- I'm sure it'd work on vista, but in an international event like this you really don't want to get things misbehaving or acting just slightly differently. Of course in 4 years time vista will be standard and they'll be no question of using anything else- or possibly using the next version of Windows.

Re:It's Probably Just

[Anonymous Coward]

But the /. spin is that Vista is horrible and that even the Olympics isn't using it. The logical reasoning of the software they are using just not having a Vista version makes too much d@mn sense and doesn't bash MS.

And let's put it this way to the person who posted this story, you do realize that the largest sporting committee in the world choses Windows over Linux.

Doesn't that just make you steam, eh?

It Isn't The Popularity of XP

[NeverVotedBush]

That is making things difficult for Vista. Vista is making things difficult for Vista.

Just about every day there are stories of how it can't do something important, or has some kind of security flaw, or won't work with this or that hardware, or needs even more system resources to even run.

What is making XP "popular" is that it doesn't have the problems Vista does. It is no advantage to XP. It's that Vista has so many faults. This isn't unlike the Microsoft even versions of DOS that sucked too.

Is anybody surprised?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Lenevo is choosing to go with an older, well-established OS that's tried and tested for the "mission critical" stuff rather than a newer, less tested one. So what?

Is anybody surprised at that? Would you do things differently?

When you have to look after everything from press accreditation to publishing results, from scheduling to putting up the correct names of competitors, and doing it all in a multitude of languages and to the tightest of schedules, what would Windows Vista bring to the party that Windows XP wouldn't?

To use a car analogy, Windows XP has been around the block, been put through its paces, had its engine tuned and is humming nicely, whilst Windows Vista has barely had more than its tyres kicked in the dealer's forecourt. If you were taking a 5,000 mile road trip across a continent, which would you go with?

Why anybody would be surprised at this decision, or even see it as a failing of Windows Vista, is beyond me. If you're going to go with a Microsoft OS, then common sense makes Windows XP the obvious choice.

In somewhat related news...

[Idaho]

The dutch equivalent of "the consumerist" (de consumentenbond) recently started a program where consumers can send in their Vista-related problems, which they are going to urge Microsoft to fix or ask for money back (or perhaps, to give free copies of XP instead). To quote de consumentenbond (article in dutch, relevant part translated here):

"A power user will be able to solve most of the problems that Vista confronts him with, however the average consumer will run into serious trouble. The [operating] system contains so many mistakes that we want to investigate this in detail."

Furthermore, the article notes that "The consumentenbond dislikes the fact that new computers are delivered with the Vista operating system by default".

Yup, Vista seems to be doing great...

Re:Its not so difficult

[mixnblend]

Yeah, yeah, you may mod down the grammar Nazi now. fixed.

Major setback

[Reckless Visionary]

"a major setback"

Come on, really? Complete sensationalist bullshit. Why don't we keep it up and refer to these meaningless events as "the final nail in the coffin" or ones that "spell doom" or "darken the horizon" for Vista. In case you hadn't noticed, the money's all going to the same place.

link is to a parasitic blog instead of the source

[1u3hr]

TFSummary links to TFA:
http://www.pclaunches.com/software/olympic_committ ee_chooses_xp_over_vista.php

which just regurgitates the story from
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080807-vista -wireless-kept-off-core.html

Why not link directly to the source instead of some blogger collecting Adsense? Network World has got advertising too, of course, but at least they earned it by doing the work and researching a story instead of just plagiarising it like a Picquepaille.

And for fuck's sake "installing XP on it's machine".
"It's" == "It is". Possessive is "Its".