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One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-only-they-could-just-be-not-bought dept.

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.'"

3 of 617 comments (clear)

  1. XP isn't a downgrade from Vista by xs650 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's an upgrade

  2. Excuse me by hierro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Downgrade?

  3. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    two thirds of new PCs upgraded to GNU/Linux.