Microsoft Vista’s problems keep piling on
By Mike Ferro
Earlier here on Blorge, we reported companies such as Alaska Airlines were considering skipping Vista, now more businesses have publicly announced they maybe skipping Vista altogether and sticking with XP. General Motors one of the largest auto manufacturer in the world publicly expressed concern for Vista recently.
The news just seem to get worse daily for Vista, with recent studies criticizing Vista’s security, slow adoption rate, and now major businesses who have considered forgoing Vista all together. According to Extreme Tech, General Motors gave the primary reasons for their concerns were stiff hardware requirements, compatibility issues with third party software vendors.
These are the same reasons I gave in a post last week as to what Vista’s weaknesses are. As I recall there were some reader’s who disagreed on these points, maybe their views have been swayed now.
Extreme Tech rattle off the other problem’s Vista is under fire for, such as the class action lawsuit and IT advisory firm’s criticism of Vista. With Vista sales at 65% third quarter of last year, clearly the adoption rate is not where Microsoft wants it to be. The sales number is actually lower when you consider the number of customers who have exercised their downgrade right to XP from Vista.
If all major businesses decide to stay away from Vista, Microsoft will be dealt a huge blow. If Vista does not take off you can be assured shareholders will also not be happy campers as Microsoft will have to continue lowering their growth forecast over time. As it is, Mac and Linux backers have been hedging at Microsoft’s space to take a chunk of their market share and if Vista fails and XP loses its market relevance that could spell hard times for Microsoft.
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May 18th, 2008
i still cant believe how many people are having problems with microsoft windows vista,because i really like it,i think its microsoft best windows software yet.i think its alot better than windows xp easily.my windows vista ultimate edition loads up fast to the main windows screen,then im online in the matter of seconds.so far,the security in ms win ultimate ed has been excellent,the security in vista ultimate is 10 times better than windows xp sp2 sp1 and the regular windows xp upgrade to windows 98 2nd edition.but i always thought windows98 second edition was the very best windows software.but thats the problem with windows xp,sp1,sp2 and windows vista,and ultimate editions,they made the software more bulky eating to much system resources and memory for ram and it should consolidate alotta crap that it doesnt use so it doesnt use so much memory for ram and system resources.i will always remember how terrible windows xp was,because it was the worst piece of crap software i ever used,the constant security breaches by adware/spyware and others taking over your pc rendering your pc useless and then you had start everything all over again.but im not sure if it was security breaches caused by windows xp,because the hackers were using vulnerabilities in windows internet explorer and instant messenger with that adware/spyware programs and constantly installing everywhere taking over your pc till you couldnt do anything except re-start the windows xp and re-install windows xp again.
May 19th, 2008
Very good article.
I have been seeing all of this “Vista is the fastest selling OS”, well, its because Microsoft is only offering it. If you were to give people the option of XP or Vista on every machine, and let every Vista user have a dowgrade right, I can assure you that Vista will slowly disappear.
I have Vista Home Premium (OEM) and, I will say SP1 fixed a lot of problems, but problems still exist. And I just want to throw this out there but XP can run fairly well on 256MB of RAM, Vista needs at least 1GB to run, and with 2GB it will run fairly.
Plus, Microsoft is going to slowly hide Vista under the rug with WinME.