Thursday, June 26, 2008

Intel Sees "No Compelling Case" for Vista

New York Times staff reporter Steve Lohr says Intel has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system

“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” an Intel source says.

To be sure, large enterprises have all sorts of applications that might have to be upgraded or modified when making a major operating system change. Consumers don't generally have those problems.

Still, it's a bit striking when a major Microsoft partner makes a decision like that. Chipmakers like it when new operating systems and apps require lots more powerful processors and lots more memory. Except when it's their money, apparently.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haw haw! that's rich!
"except when it with their own money, apparently"...he wrote, smiling at his own sense of irony and the joke he just came up with.
god damn! i AM good he thought, as he jumped up to go pee and pour himself yet another glass of wine.

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