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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Microsoft creates a new blog for Windows 7

Microsoft has recently created a brand new blog with the topic of Windows 7. their first post was on the 14th and we can anticipate more information about Windows 7. However, they have learned from Vista, and so they are being more cautious in releasing details of their new OS.
In their second post, they wrote,

"We, as a team, definitely learned some lessons about “disclosure” and how we can all too easily get ahead of ourselves in talking about features before our understanding of them is solid. Our intent with Windows 7 and the pre-release communication is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about when we do talk. Again, top of mind for us is the responsibility we feel to make sure we are not stressing priorities, churning resource allocations, or causing strategic confusion among the tens of thousands of partners and customers who care deeply and have much invested in the evolution of Windows.

As Vista required significant hardware investments to run it and also had many problems when first released, Windows 7 promises to deliver a much improved Vista. They will no doubt fix all or at least most of the problems that happened with Vista. By the time Windows 7 finally comes out, the hardware world will have greatly improved and will likely be able to meet with the demands of their Windows 7 Project. For everyone who held out on buying Vista, it's only a year and a half away from a (hopefully) much better OS.

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Vista Or No Vista?

    Ever since Vista came out,everybody's been complaining about it. But the real question is, should you get vista? This question is asked a lot by businesses who are unsure of whether or not they should upgrade to vista. Less frequently is it asked by consumers.
    This questions really isn't all that hard to answer. Let's start with businesses.If you have yet to upgrade to vista now, then it's probably best never to upgrade to vista. After all, XP will receive critical support until 2014 and the new Windows 7 will be released in 2010. It seems obvious that, due to Vista's lack of positive feedback, if you don't already have it by now, just don't get it. Unfortunately, it may not be as simple as this. Microsoft said that it would easy to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, but they didn't say anything about upgrading from XP to Windows 7. Although this shouldn't be too much of a problem, it is something to think about. If you already have Vista, then there's really no need to downgrade to XP. XP is not significantly better than Vista, and Vista does boast considerable security benefits.
    Now we move on to the home use of Vista. Well, the best advice I can give you, is just stick whatever came with the computer, unless the operating system is below XP. All these operating systems don't really make that much of a difference in day-to-day use unless you're a hardcore gamer or something like that.Even then, Vista isn't a bad choice. If the computer came with an Apple operating system, then I'd still suggest that you stick with what it came with. Changing it is really just a waste of time for the average home-user.
    And that's the end of it. Let's hope that Windows 7 will be much better than Vista.

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