Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade

[Pat]

For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose to skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal.
Following a report Monday on the Inquirer, the New York Times reported Wednesday that Intel's IT department "found no compelling case" for upgrading to Windows Vista.

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.

Source:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ref=technology

[CadCrazy]

[Pat]

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

Abbe..stop spamming everywhere! This is not Chit-Chat

[lywyre]

Ya. Even Microsoft has realised the failure of Vista and has extended support for XP till 2014. By the Windows 7 would be doing rounds and Vista, sadly for MS, has already become MeII.

[shantanu]

try to paste some more content here.. or do not post if you are lazy...

[Pat]

^^Edited the first post..Happy ?

[shantanu]

this looks like news now..

[New]

Bad time is going for MS..But remember,every dog has it's own day...

Bad time is going on for MS..But remember,every dog has it's own day...

[MetalheadGautham]

Cool.
Whats the use of upgrading when the current OS works fine ?

[naveen_reloaded]

naveen_reloaded is to skip Quad core proccessor ... hi h ihiii

[Pat]

^^ What ???

[praka123]

HIHIHI !I liked it!way to go Intel !they saved millions from one of the biggest disastors in Compu field !

[axxo]

may be not applicable for new resource they shift for

offtopic:
@praka123
would you mind explaining first line of your signature?
khidkiyan sucks!remove khidkiyan from ur pc!

[praka123]

offtopic:
sorry @axxo thalaivare athu vanthu ..khidki vantu vada indian mozhikalil "janaalakal(window$)" entru artham .

[axxo]

Originally Posted by praka123

offtopic:
sorry @axxo thalaivare athu vanthu ..khidki vantu vada indian mozhikalil "janaalakal(window$)" entru artham .

khidki -> malayalam translation for janalkal? btw if i remove it there wont be any airflow thereafter

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ You might want to add "Jannala Moodu!" in your siggy.

ontopic, +1 for Intel, since it finds nothing new in vista worth enough to change.

[praka123]

@axxo : I was talking about OS "Janalkal "

[vaithy]

@praka 'Jannal' has not been mentioned in any of ancient 'sangam' litereature. So it didn't belong to Dravidan language.. Actually when the portugese merchants come via 'kalikode' some of their words mingled with local. Ancient Tamils (including present Malayalees) never build 'Jannal' ..but they build 'salaram' kind of jannal without any iron bars crossing, for air flow.. ofcourse such set up can lead to invitation for thieves. but theft is a unusual crime st that time (minimum penalty being cut of hand to head ..so the Protugese Merchants build their housing with small jannal' then most of the local follow this...
So don't worry. 'Jannal' is not ours it is also from the foriegn devils!!

vaithy