Enterprises downgrading from Vista

I've always suspected that the claimed higher sales of Vista from Microsoft's studies were simply because they wouldn't offer XP anymore. Maybe now we've got some confirmation. An article from TechNewsWorld (click here to view) is talking about how Devil Mountain Software conducted a study of over 3,000 machines and concluding that 1/3 of companies are getting the pre-installed Vista computers or just buying Vista and then downgrading to XP.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Microsoft. Never was, and I'm actually in support of Microsoft. I just think that if Microsoft wants to claim higher sales for Vista, they should also tell us about how many people are exercising their downgrading option. I personally see no reason for such companies to downgrade. If you've already got Vista, why do anything about it? It's not like Vista really hampers your work. My personal experience with Vista is that it's a really good product with is better than XP was with just some problems that need to be fixed.

Although the study was probably inaccurate as well. There's been 180 Vista liscenses sold and only 3,000 machines were studied. There's really no way to prove any of these surveys seeing as they can just select a group of companies that hate Microsoft or something similar to that. And then Microsoft could select a bunch of pro-microsoft people for their studies. The only thing you can really rely on is probably experience and your friend's experiences with these things if you want to know if you should get Vista. If that question is bothering you, refer to my earlier post called Vista or No Vista.

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