Saturday, June 28th 2008

Intel Skips Windows Vista

Now that Microsoft officially confirmed support for Windows XP until year 2014, Intel has decided to skip upgrading to Windows Vista. The chip giant won't upgrade the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft's Vista operating system, according to a person close to Intel's IT department. "This isn't a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista," the person said. There's no official reason for this decision, but it's quite obvious that Vista is still not mature enough to succeed Windows XP. Sad but true. Meanwhile, the next version of Windows codenamed Windows 7 is scheduled to go on sale in January 2010. By skipping Vista, Intel dooms its workers to Windows XP for at least two more years.
Source: New York Times
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27 Comments on Intel Skips Windows Vista

#26
AsRock
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lemonadesodaNonesense!
Intel is not upgrading to Vista because there is no business benefit. No company workflow will improve, be faster, or simpler by the new OS. But there are significant costs:
  • Employees need to be trained
  • Some software may be incompatible
  • IT team needs to install new OS everywhere
  • Significant costs and downtime
IMO Intel made the right decision. But is has NOTHING to do with "Vista not mature, buggy, or no good". It's a simple matter of cost/benefit. Cost large. Benefit small. QED.
Well makes no sense either to change OS's as the staff would have to get used to another OS this to me is time wasted. Ok it's not all that different but it's still different. All so the possible issue's that would come along with the change of OS. Well not possible problems actual problems.
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Easy Rhino
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no dx10 gaming for intel employees at work then :laugh:
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