Intel refuses Vista, XP gets extension

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DailyTech - Intel Turns Its Back on Windows Vista

Intel, which has over 80,000 employees with workstations, will not change its computers over to Vista. This marks the first time that Intel would have bypassed a major Windows generation, if the reports from the key inside source hold true.

Microsoft has responded to the strong demand by extending the XP Home and Media Center support lifespan by 5 years. Until now the scheduled cutoff date was January 2009. The extension will last till May 2014. The extension means that Microsoft will continue to deliver non-security upgrades for 5 more years. XP Pro had already received a similar extension.

ouch... wonder how soon MS will discontinue support for Vista? Less than a year after Windows 7/Vienna is released?

[Parker]

W00t!! I'm glad to hear this.
XP FTW!!!

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some may use the corporate adoption rate is slower but when you really look at it, in the consumer segment, there are a large portion of existing home computers and users happy with XP that have not switched either. So I think Vista is more of a "only if you want it" type of software. XP was/is a major security update over previous versions of Windows. With XP SP3 introducing some of the security patches/enhancements that Vista also carries (a new "are you sure you want to run this software" is seen in SP3, similar to the UAC warning for downloads), many people and companies should have no "need" to downgrade to Vista.

[Hitman]

You also have to keep in mind the workload that it takes to transform a whole corporation from one OS to another. If you're talking about 1000+ computers it could take several weeks or longer. I know in the Army they started the switch from Windows NT to Windows 2K in 2001, with a complete date sometime in 2003. Towards the end of the transformation, the Army switched from Win2K to WinXP pro with a complete date sometime in 2006. To my knowledge there is to plan to switch to Vista. Most of our servers still run Win2K server, and just a few years ago some of them were still running NT server. There are very few that run Win2K3 server.

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Many consumer habits mirror companies. If it works and has worked well for so long, there is no need to go to the next OS. I think this is a major reason Vista adoption has been slow in both the Consumer and Commercial sectors. People are happy with XP, it is stable and the only way to screw it up is by user error or hardware dying. Otherwise the software itself is stable and works well.
People see Vista with all its problems and driver issues and other "perceived" issues and most "people" will stick with XP. Even so much as to go back once they tried Vista.
I think MS knows they have Windows ME version 2 on their hands so it is being left as is with a few small fixes and their attention is on Win7...