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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.'"
Every week or two there is a new post about how Vista is a failure. I run it and it's great. Get over it. Microsoft wins again. Corporations aren't adopting it because the gap between things like Vista or OSX and things like Linux and XP is just too big for most controlled IT organizations to cross at this time. That is why the downgrading is happening. It's not because XP is "better", or even more preferred, than Vista. People need to get off the hater bandwagon and do something useful with their computers!
The performance testing tools was "Office performance benchmarks". So I guess Vista isn't as great as XP for what exactly? TFA mentions nothing about things like Vista's SuperFetch speeding up load times etc, so this "omg vista is slooooow" is highly unscientific if you ask me.
The only reason I know people don't upgrade is for mission critical apps not being ready yet.
Stick a question-mark in front of any text and suddenly you can say anything.
throw new NoSignatureException();
Pull video drivers out to userspace, check.
Rip off cool UI enhancements, check.
If that's halfway, what else did they do during the Vista development anyway?
Oh yeah, that's right.
To-do:
Add suck
Add fail
That's a great list. It'll make a great product. Seeing that kind of accomplishment just makes me so emotional I just want to start throwing chairs or something.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Well, what are you gaining by having that extra 10% with XP or Linux? Another running program? At a certain point, if you have the resources, a 10% gain/loss doesn't really mean anything.
And memory prices being what they are, you have all the resources you need for a reasonable price.
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it"
Isn't that kind of a lot for a duck to say?
Lame attempt at humor, not deserving of +5 Funny. If he had said "shaggy dog story" instead of "canard", would you be blathering about canines? I doubt many people would see the humor in that. Or, does the French derivation somehow make it funnier?
Somebody mod this up, please.