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Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won't Embrace Microsoft's Windows Vista
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:37:56 -0700
________________________________________ From: Bruce R Koball [bkoball () well com] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:14 PM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Dave, On the chance IP hasn't seen this...
Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won't Embrace Microsoft's Windows Vista By Steve Lohr Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft's Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company's plans said. The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel's relationship with Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to run smoothly. "This isn't a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista," the person said.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html?hp fwiw, I've been frantically trying to replace the older machines in my shop before MS prohibits OEMs from selling XP entirely... -brk- Bruce R. Koball Motion West (direct) 510 845-1350 bkoball () well com 2210 Sixth St (studio) 510 845-3946 bkoball () motionwest com Berkeley, CA 94710 (office) 510 540-7503 ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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