Is Vista Climbing Above XP?
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
January7th2008

A lot of bad things have been said about Vista so far, and most of them are not lies, but Bill Gates seems to consider it the best Windows OS so far, and the industry should take this into account. After all, the Windows peripherals and software market is huge, and as soon as official support for XP is going to stop, software producers will start releasing Vista-only products.
According to information from Dell's Outlet Center, it seems that while 70% of the small businesses go for Windows XP, only 7% of the consumers still choose it over Vista, but there's one thing that I don't think most people considered... As a corporate user, you can order a batch of 100 laptops and ask your system integrator to deliver them with Windows XP preinstalled, while for consumers, it gets harder and harder to find computers that come with anything else preinstalled then Vista.
Expectations are that Vista will become what XP is now, the operating system that users wow to use until their computers blow up, but is there enough time for this to happen until Microsoft releases Windows 7? Just think about this - while DirectX 10 has been on the market for more than a year, being one of the reasons that made a lot of gamers upgrade to Vista, serious DirectX 10 games that run decently on mid-end systems are nowhere to be seen yet...
At last, we shouldn't forget that, in some areas, businesses and home-users started to switch from Windows to Linux, and despite the fact this is only a drop in an ocean, the future will show us if this was a drop of acid, or simply dilluted water...










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