Sales of Vista down with grim outlook in Europe
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Vista is becoming the child of Microsoft that no one can love except its maker, similar to a certain product produced by another company which is a completely different discussion. Sales of Vista were down nearly 4% for the month of August and corporations by and large want nothing to do with it.
It’s basically the same everywhere, companies don’t want Vista due to a lot of compatibility problems with legacy hardware and software that many businesses continue to use. It’s either upgrade the whole lot or keep what is already in place with that being the cheaper option.
Many businesses simply do not have the money or the time to devout to upgrading everything at the same time though some have displayed interest in doing partial rollouts over several years until the whole organization is ready for it.
According to VNUNET, Lenovo Ireland stated, “A number of our clients’ applications are not designed to run on Vista and will only run with XP.”
Microsoft eventually had to concede those points by extending the life of Vista for five months and offering XP downgrade options.
The compatibility issues cannot be blamed on Microsoft entirely as some of it lies with third parties. Vista requires programs to be coded differently than they were under XP. Largely, poor coding was used under XP with all programs being granted admin access but that cannot be done under Vista unless the user has an admin account, this is where many issues arise.
Most companies have not changed coding practices so unless the user is running as admin in Vista some things just won’t work properly or even install in the first place.
It’s my opinion that many business are waiting to see what happens with SP1 before hopping onboard even as Microsoft continues to downplay the importance of the service pack.
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