One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?

CWmike writes "More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, said performance and metrics researcher Devil Mountain Software, which operates a community-based testing network. 'The 35% is only an estimate, but it shows a trend within our own user base,' Craig Barth, the company's CTO, said. 'People are taking advantage of Vista's downgrade rights.' Last year, Devil Mountain benchmarked Vista and XP performance using other performance-testing tools and concluded that XP was much faster. Barth said things haven't changed since then. 'Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn.'"

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[corsec67]

Subject says it all.

how about the new version of Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

How come no one is talking about the new version of Windows called Mojave? It looks great, and has little utilities called gadgets ... I love Windows Mojave. I give it a "10"!

... er, what's that you say?

What if we just told them it was XP?

[DeLukas]

But! But! Microsoft did that thing, and people said Vista is great if we don't tell them it's Vista. Clearly the solution is to rebrand Vista as XP and in two months, like a magician, whip the cloth off and go "Aha! You've been using Vista all along!" There is no way a plan like that could fail!

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[fiannaFailMan]

Not even a first. Anybody remember Windows ME? Redmond is forgetting their history apparently....

Nonsense. Redmond was always at war with East Asia.

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[morgan_greywolf]

It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it"

Isn't that kind of a lot for a duck to say?

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Re:Not exactly surprised...

[Anonymous Coward]

Marketing is changing nothing. Now I hear this new Windows Mojave rocks! I can't wait till it gets released!!!

Re:Move over Moore. Gates' Law ... Updated.

[smittyoneeach]

Now if we slap a UI on it and make it asynchronous, we reach the nirvana of GUITAR.
String handling like you've never felt it before!

Re:how about the new version of Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

Turns out OS is actually just Ubuntu Linux with a few custom themes.

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[Kyril]

Microsoft fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a LAN war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never mention Hitler when flames are on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

[Vizzini stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[Anonymous Coward]

Defrag? I'm sorry, are you from the past?

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[colmore]

What do you mean? We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Re:Move over Moore. Gates' Law ... Updated.

[commodoresloat]

And if we slice it up on a sandwich with yogurt and garlic, we've got GUITAR GYRO!!! Yum!!

(ducks out the back exit)

Re:Not exactly surprised...

[Allador]

Thanks for adding such an informed, educated, and insightful post to the discussion.

How about instead of making random uninformed comments, go read up on wikipedia [wikipedia.org] and see what's actually been done.

That doesnt mean you have to like Vista or Microsoft, but at least be informed as to the fact that Vista is a completely different beast from XP. There are many, many, many under the hood changes in Vista that we (ISVs and IT support businesses) have been asking for, for the better part of a decade.

Yes, MS did a shitty job with the marketing, distribution, and packaging of Vista. But dont ignore the very real (and so long overdue) improvements they did make to the core of Windows.