PC Makers: Hasta La Vista, Baby!
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 30 March 2007 - 09:10 · 8 comments & 2649 views
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#1 Posted by nikostheater on 30 Mar 2007 - 09:47
- It seems then that Windows Vista was part of the reason that led Dell to promise Linux support in the future...Maybe the Microsoft woes just started...
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#2 Posted by Yogurth on 30 Mar 2007 - 13:32
- Pretty contradictory results to those of last week's Microsoft report on Vista sales doubling XP sales in first months. In the end it all comes to how much money are You willing to pay for this and that feature, and with Vista upgrade it's not only the cost of OS itself but most of new hardware aswell(RAM, Video Card, and CPU)
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#2.1 Posted by MrCobra on 30 Mar 2007 - 13:56
- I think it's not being adopted too quickly because it doesn't "work" out of the box the way it's supposed to. Yes, some of those issues are driver releated. OEMs shouldn't sell Vista machines when all the hardware bought doesn't work like it should. My uncle just recently bought a new PC with Vista and returned it because the printer/scanner would not work.
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#2.2 Posted by DariusIII on 30 Mar 2007 - 17:24
- Quote - (MrCobra said @ #2.1)I think it's not being adopted too quickly because it doesn't "work" out of the box the way it's supposed to. Yes, some of those issues are driver releated. OEMs shouldn't sell Vista machines when all the hardware bought doesn't work like it should. My uncle just recently bought a new PC with Vista and returned it because the printer/scanner would not work.
That is why large companies have Technical Support.If the PC worked i don't see the reason of returning it.You cannot expect Windows to support rare or old scanners/printers (especially some manufacturers that are "unknown"
.Windows is not to blame for everything, some of the blames should be on equipment manufacturers for not supporting their own hardware (something like nVidia not supporting nforce 2 chipsets on vista).
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#3 Posted by mel00 on 30 Mar 2007 - 18:03
- just slap xp on those system and watch them fly...
I dunno why this OEM are so scare of Microsoft...Mirosoft need them as much as they need microsoft... should be option in menu xp pro/home or vista/so many version to list... -
#3.1 Posted by Clueless Fox on 31 Mar 2007 - 00:54
- you know that's actually an awesome idea.. not to sound like a fanboy, but when osx was first introduced, os 9 was installed as well just to give people an option.. and basically guide them to the 'next gen' OS.
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#4 Posted by +SwitchBlade on 30 Mar 2007 - 18:55
- A bloke at work bought a brand new PC with Vista. He took it back 2 days later. He just hated everything about Vista. After an argument in store he managed to get his PC swapped for a more powerful one and XP installed on it. Win win.
But the software, which runs on more memory and superior graphic cards, has not taken off as fast as some had hoped, leading to concerns of potential inventory woes for makers of those products, analysts and industry players said. "Vista has had no big help," said Acer's president Gianfranco Lanci, adding that PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.