Intel Skips Windows Vista

[AsRock]

I am officially never going to upgrade to vista, as of a horrible experience i've had with it today, it is so counterproductive AND frustrating. I swapped motherboards, and expected to be able to install windows, was I? No. Because the ownership of the HDD was with "another computer". While there is sercurity to consider, it wasted me time; I didnt have ANYTHING to format the disk. Even if I did, its so counterproductive, I spent the whole day trying to verify if the HDD was dead...

I ended up having to use the XP install disc to format, THEN install vista.

Fail.

Why not format with Vista's DVD ?..

 

[AsRock]

Nonesense!
Intel is not upgrading to Vista because there is no business benefit. No company workflow will improve, be faster, or simpler by the new OS. But there are significant costs:

• Employees need to be trained
• Some software may be incompatible
• IT team needs to install new OS everywhere
• Significant costs and downtime

IMO Intel made the right decision. But is has NOTHING to do with "Vista not mature, buggy, or no good". It's a simple matter of cost/benefit. Cost large. Benefit small. QED.

Well makes no sense either to change OS's as the staff would have to get used to another OS this to me is time wasted. Ok it's not all that different but it's still different. All so the possible issue's that would come along with the change of OS. Well not possible problems actual problems.

 

[Easy Rhino]

no dx10 gaming for intel employees at work then