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  Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade

By Ina Fried 
<mailto:zdnews-asia at cnet.com&Subject=Feedback%20on%20%27Reports:%20Intel%20to%20skip%20Vista%20upgrade%27>, 
CNET News.com
Friday, June 27, 2008 07:03 AM

* 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 
<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/23/intel-dumps-vista>, 
the /New York Times/ reported Wednesday that Intel's IT department 
"found no compelling case" 
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html?ref=technology> 
for upgrading to Windows Vista.

And that's despite the fact that it's been nearly seven years since XP 
debuted. It's not a good thing, if your customers are electing to stick 
with 7-year-old technology, although XP did get a fairly big update with 
Windows XP Service Pack 2 some 4 years ago.

Microsoft, which once predicted businesses would adopt Vista at twice 
the rate 
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61956378,00.htm> they 
moved to XP, has scaled back its ambitions and these days talks a lot 
about how long the adoption curve is for businesses when it comes to new 
operating systems.

/This article was first published as a blog on CNET News.com./


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