Comments on: Are PC Manufacturers Killing Vista ?

By: Peety

Peety — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:25:21 +0000

Vista has been given a BAD rap by the Dutch consumers guide.. They even wrote an article issuing a warning to new pc buyers. That if they are not happy with vista they have the right to ask the manufacture to replace the operating system.

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By: Pete White

Pete White — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:52:45 +0000

Thats a good point, we have been buying XP machines all year and they are getting increasingly hard to find. I don't know what we are going to do next year when we are forced into Vista. I just hope they bring out SP1 soon as Vista still doesn't play right with server 2003.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:39:54 +0000

Matt, agree entirely that all industries will not switch to Mac because of Vista. I am Head of IT at a large acute hospital and we have 3,500 PC's and 200 servers ( 2000, 2003 ). However for a number of reasons we are not even beginning to contemplate moving to Vista and it is not on agenda for the future either.

I do believe though that Vista is accelerating the rate of switching in other sectors. For example of my team of staff a fair number have either switched already or would switch in a shot if they could afford it for their home PC's.

What I was saying in the article is that the approach taken by manufacturers such as HP is that they make Vista look even worse than it really is by shipping Vista enabled machines that are clearly not up to the job.

To contrast this I have just bought an Asus Eee PC 701, which is a tiny notebook with 512Mb RAm and a 4Gb flash hard drive that runs Linux and it knocks spots off the £700 Samsung Q1 that I have that runs Vista and the Asus was £199 !

By: Matt Aiken

Matt Aiken — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:40:08 +0000

PC manufacturers killing vista? You gotta be kidding me! They're not.

We buy over 40 pc's a year as a medium sized company. We managed to get our orders in early this year so we guaranteed our xp revisions, but come next year the ONLY pcs we'll be able to get will be vista enabled ones.

The power that be – always see mac as the expensive option. Don't get me wrong, I'm a reluctant Apple evangelist but in the corporate environment where you have it directors who been there for decades and remember the dreaded appletalk era – you can guarantee they wont be advising a mac switch anytime soon.

By: james

james — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:42:45 +0000

get that vista logo off your front page! YUK!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:56:26 +0000

I think Microsofts biggest battle with Vista is getting into businesses. Sure they will get growing numbers of home users purely because they don't have any choice in the matter when they are buying. In the corporate arena though things are very different and there really is still no overriding good reason for upgrading, especially since the promises of a more secure and robust OS have largely failed to materialise.

By: Pete White

Pete White — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:51:11 +0000

Dugg – good article but I think in comparison for a Windows OS its still early days. Microsoft do have a lot of work to do in sp1. Dvorak loves to write anything controversial, though does make a good read.