One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?

CWmike writes "More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, said performance and metrics researcher Devil Mountain Software, which operates a community-based testing network. 'The 35% is only an estimate, but it shows a trend within our own user base,' Craig Barth, the company's CTO, said. 'People are taking advantage of Vista's downgrade rights.' Last year, Devil Mountain benchmarked Vista and XP performance using other performance-testing tools and concluded that XP was much faster. Barth said things haven't changed since then. 'Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn.'"

Comments

2001 Called

[nauseum_dot]

and said that its OS is not going out without a fight!

Seriously, some variation of NT 5 is going to live for a long time, ReactOS is proof positive of this.

Non-Compatible Laptops

[Renraku]

I bought my laptop with the intention of downgrading to Windows XP for increased stability and performance.

I was shocked, on the other hand, to find that there were no Windows XP drivers and that inserting the Windows XP CD and booting from it caused a BSOD before the installing starts. I have an HP Pavilion DV5-1002NR.

Do not purchase this laptop if you want to use Windows XP on it.

Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7

[Hyppy]

I hate to break it to you, but you've stumbled on Mojave. Server 2008 is Vista to the core, minus some of the flair.

Re:it's all a bit silly, really

[Archangel Michael]

XP was an upgrade from Win2k, not 98

And in that regard, XP is faster than 2000 is.