Despite the ridiculous "consultants" who promote Vista in this ng,
Intel will *NOT* go for Vista, One more sign that Vista has no future
and that it have to be banned from discussion here in this news group,
despite i'm not the admin, it's my personal request.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...q=intel&st=nyt
Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Windows Vista
By Steve Lohr
Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has
decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to
Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of
the company’s plans said.
The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested
anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel’s relationship with
Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis
by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits
of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers
as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to
run smoothly.
“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information
technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,”
the person said.
An Intel spokesman said the company was testing and deploying Vista in
certain departments, but not across the company.
Intel’s decision is certain to sting Microsoft because the two
companies have worked closely to align hardware and software from the
earliest days of the personal computer. Indeed, the corporate duo is
known as “Wintel” in the PC industry.
Could Intel change its mind? Quite possibly. Microsoft’s chief
executive, Steven Ballmer, has few equals as a forceful, persuasive
salesman, and he and Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, meet
regularly.
Word of Intel’s lukewarm response to Vista appeared Monday in The
Inquirer, an irreverent London-based technology Web site.
Intel is hardly alone in its reluctance to embrace Microsoft’s latest
operating system, which was available to corporate customers in
November 2006 and to consumers in January 2007. Large companies
routinely hold off a year or so after a new version of Windows is
introduced before adopting it, waiting for initial bugs to be
eliminated and for applications to be written. “But by 18 months,
you’d expect to see a significant uptake, and we haven’t seen that,”
said David Smith, a Gartner analyst. “There’s not much excitement.”
His Gartner colleague, Michael Silver, said that about 30 percent of
corporate customers skip any given new version of Windows. But the
percentage will be higher for Vista, Mr. Silver predicted. Gartner’s
corporate clients that plan to skip Vista, like Intel, do not see
value of this upgrade, particularly since it requires new PC hardware
at the time when the economy is weak and corporate budgets are tight.
Still, Microsoft doesn’t seem to be suffering too much from the
resistance to Vista by some large corporations. Microsoft says there
are more than 140 million copies of Vista installed on machines
worldwide. Consumers and small businesses simply get the operating
system that is on a new machine when they buy a PC, and that is Vista.
Meanwhile, the Microsoft operating system engine chugs on, phasing out
the old and proclaiming the new. The company reiterated this week
that, despite some customer protests, it would halt shipments of the
previous version of Windows, XP, to retail stores and stop most
licensing of XP to PC makers next week. Microsoft also announced that
the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, is scheduled to
go on sale in January 2010.
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