Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade

By Ina Fried, 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, the New York Times reported Wednesday that Intel's IT department "found no compelling case" 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 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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