Atom-Based Notebooks Carry Budget Price Tags
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| On the software side, Atom-based notebooks will ship with either Windows XP
| or some version of Linux. "I don't think you'll see a lot of Vista in this
| space for cost reasons," he said.
|
| The availability of Windows XP on low-cost notebooks set to arrive during the
| middle of the year is noteworthy because Microsoft has stated previously that
| Windows XP licenses will not be sold after June 30.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143263-c,notebooks/article.html
Too weak for Vista, which is also undesirable on 'far' PCs. New survey:
Desktop OS, Hold the Vista
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| Exclusive eWEEK research indicates that Microsoft's desktop Windows operating
| system is a rousing success.
|
| Vista?
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| No, XP.
|
| In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK
| of enterprise IT professionals, just 2 percent of respondents said that Vista
| was the primary desktop operating system at their companies, while 92 percent
| indicated that XP was their primary desktop OS.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Vista/Desktop-OS-Hold-the-Vista/
2%. Vista was RTM-ed in 2006.
Related:
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
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| Vista.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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