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Clear Windows - 18 May 2008 09:56 GMT

A number of companies are opting not to embrace Redmond's latest operating
system and, like GM, are waiting for Windows 7 instead

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080512_157155.htm

(read part of article below my comment)

My comment:
I told all you vista fanboys..I don't have to supply the proof all the
time.. just get off your lazy *** and do some surfing, the internet is full
of negative and hate articles about vista... the world is tearing down vista
and you still think it's the best thing since sliced bread?

LOL DELUSIONAL FANBOYS!!!!!!

Part of article:
General Motors (GM) may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer
operating system from Microsoft (MSFT). The automaker has encountered so
many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait
for the next version of Windows, due in 2010 or 2011. "We're considering
bypassing Vista and going straight to Windows 7," says GM's Chief Systems &
Technology Officer Fred Killeen.

Vista taxes all but the most modern PCs with hefty processing and memory
requirements. Many of GM's PCs can't even run the system. "By the time we'd
replace them, Windows 7 might be ready anyway," Killeen says. Then there are
compatibility problems with all the software that needs to run on Windows.
GM's software vendors still haven't ensured all their programs will run on
Vista trouble-free. So the company is sticking with Windows XP for now.
Killeen figures GM could install Windows 7 in three or four years.

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Frank - 18 May 2008 18:08 GMT

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hehehe...what's wrong capin' crunch...still can't figure out how to
properly install, configure and run Vista so you need to post irrelevant
news about GM. Like who, besides you really gives a rats a.s huh?
It's like this sport...Vista is and you're not!...LOL!
Frank

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Canuck57 - 18 May 2008 19:15 GMT

I especially like this part:

"Brent Thill, software research director at Citigroup (C), says sales of
Windows desktop products should increase 11%, to $4.2 billion, in the
quarter that ends in June. But Vista adoption is still short of where
Microsoft would like it to be-just 65% of Windows copies sold in the third
quarter were Vista and about 35% were Windows XP. Microsoft wanted the
number at 80%, according to Thill. "It's just not taking off," he says.
Microsoft attributed the sales shortfall to a comparison with Vista's first
quarter on the market, software piracy in China, and unsold PC inventory,
but investors are looking for signs of deeper trouble. "Everyone's still
scratching their heads, asking, 'Is there something else going on?'" he
says. "

With XP retail going away, wonder how much of that 35% is going away too?
No question though, it will affect the bottom line on MSFT. Q3 is going to
be an interesting read on MSFT.

On the Eee PC front, apparently they have sold quite a few of them, mostly
Linux so far and into the millions. Reports say now that XP is on them as
well, there is 1/3 buying Linux and 2/3rds buying XP. Not a bad market
growth given a level field (choice).

Will predict more companies are going to increasingly offer us more options
than Vista, Vista or Vista...the crack in MS armour has started....

>A number of companies are opting not to embrace Redmond's latest operating
> system and, like GM, are waiting for Windows 7 instead
[quoted text clipped - 32 lines]
> Vista trouble-free. So the company is sticking with Windows XP for now.
> Killeen figures GM could install Windows 7 in three or four years.

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