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Loading ...It’s no secret that when you buy a new computer today you have no choice but to get it with Windows Vista; unless you buy a Mac or buy/build a Linux System. For the most part, the average consumer will buy a computer and most of those will head out to the nearest retailer buy an off-the-shelf desktop or laptop which will have Vista on it.This is to Microsoft’s advantage as it allows them to push Vista sales up and really doesn’t offer anyone a choice but this is the way things have always been since Windows 95; perhaps since Windows 3.1. Those of you who want to reminisce about the DOS days feel free to debate amongst yourselves, I wasn’t old enough at the time to remember enough about it nor do I feel like digging into 25 years worth of archives to debate every aspect of it.
The point is that no one really wants Vista when Windows XP is doing just fine for most people but Microsoft isn’t really giving anyone a choice, it’s Windows Vista or bust and that’s that.
Okay, so Steve Ballmer has said that if consumers demand XP stay on the market that Microsoft would consider keeping it out past the June 30 cut off date. It’s being demanded there Steve but you just aren’t listening very well. There’s been some beating around the bush on the issue but no official announcement; I’m not holding my breath.
While Windows Vista holds us all hostage, some of you may downgrade your system to Windows XP anyway, some of you may replace it with Linux but some of us are just stuck with it until Windows 7 comes out and as far as that’s concerned let’s hope Microsoft gets it right.
Whatever you do with your version of Vista, Microsoft can still count it as a sale whether you are using it or not and exact usage numbers can be a little more difficult to count.
Windows XP has been, by far the best operating system to come out of Redmond since, ever. It would have been a tough act to follow either way but Vista… Vista, Microsoft could have done better.
Microsoft is just trying to bide its time until Windows 7 is ready which will (probably) be based largely on Windows Server 2008 code and I doubt very much the company wants to repeat anything that happened with Vista, including a confusing marketing campaign or too many consumer editions. Only time will tell if these problems will get fixed with Windows 7.
Source: blorge
April 27th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Windows Vista SP1 and server 2008 share the same codebase. So Windows 7 would actually be based upon windows vista. There is no harm in saying that way.