discardia

From here:

In case you’re keeping track, nearly 40 million Microsoft Vista licenses have been sold in its first 100 days. According to Billy G, 78% of all sales made since the January 30th launch had been for the software’s premium versions. Not bad, in fact, pretty damn impressive leaving little doubt that this is Microsoft’s most successful OS (measure by rate of sale) ever with record profits sure to follow.

Okie dokie then.

My company is a Microsoft site. Pretty much 99.8% of our computers are running Microsoft products…. from the desktop, all the way to the enterprise infrastructure. I am a bit of Microsoft geek… I kind have been forced to be from the environment. It happens.

But Vista sucks balls.

Honestly. My laptop has Vista on it - and the power consumption, even with a bunch of “features” turned off, still gets the juice sucked out of it.

My company runs XP on all the client machines. And we have a 1000+ licenses for Vista.

Doesn’t mean we are running it. MS, in their infinite wisdom, provided us the keys as part of our license maintenance, but again, that doesn’t mean we are running it.

How many other companies out there, under volume licensing, are following the same pattern, I wonder? And I wonder how many users out in the world are being forced to use Vista as part of OEM computer purchase. My cousin is looking to buy a lappy for college and couldn’t find a brick-and-mortar store that sold one with XP preloaded. All Vista. Thankfully the clickstores haven’t fallen in a similar manner yet. Yet.

Just because MS “sold” x number of licenses really doesn’t mean shit when the OS a) sucks, and b) is a poor imitation of what an OS should be. XP, with all its faults, patches, holes, security issues, etc has had years of refinement and tweaks made to it. As far as I am concerned XP is the best product betwixt the two.

Just an observation.