Interesting article. I cannot say I am supprised
...not in the least incy-wincy-bit supprised.
Having paid for a full copy of Windows XP PRO about 18 months ago for the princely sum of the better part of £320.00 I will not be upgrading to Vista any time soon.
It is the same where I work- no-one is willing to sacrifice getting their job done with tried and tested software that is relatively reliable (XP PRO) as compared to Vista as an unknown, untested quantity.
I have a relatively new PC at home - dual core cpu, 2gb RAM and an up to date graphics card with 512mb of memory, so in theory I should have no trouble running Vista.
However, there appears to be a trend in the world of computers whereby newly released software is just not 'finished' properly.
As with many games these days, software is released to the public as a final version ready for retail. The reality is somewhat different with the paying customer being suckered in as an unknowing 'beta-tester' for the developers/publishers of the new software, hunting out bugs and errors and compatibility issues in the programs by trial and infuriating error, to be fixed eventually by a service pack or 'patch' in another 6-12 months time.
You wouldn't buy a new car and expect it to not work the first time you turned the ignition key, so why should computer software/operating systems be any different?
Consumers are starting to wake up to this economic chicanery on the part of companies like Microsoft who release unfinished software with the aim to make as much profit as soon as possible. It will be to these companies detriment to ignore the increasingly loud cries of frustration from users who have paid for a product that doesn't work when all indicators are that it should perform flawlessly.
Perhaps as more people gain experience of computers then they will begin to ignore the marketing tat encouraging them to buy the 'latest thing' thereby forcing the creators of these so-called innovations to think long and hard before releasing a product as 'finished'.
"You can either have it done
right or right now..." the choice seems obvious to me.
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