With the death knell about to ring out for Microsoft’s Windows XP as its June 30 decommission looms large on the operating system horizon, chipmaker Intel Corporation has become the latest high-profile business that’s seemingly not willing to make the unpopular transition to Windows Vista.
Intel not yet willing to fully embrace Windows Vista over XP. Image: Intel.
More pointedly, various reports are indicating that Intel has no fast and fixed plan to integrate Vista across its operations at this point in time, to which an Intel spokesman has commented that the world’s leading chip manufacturer “is in a refresh cycle now and there are a number of factors considered before we select software.”
While the spokesman did concede that Intel is “testing and deploying Windows Vista in certain departments,” the lack of total belief in Vista goes against the grain regarding the longstanding partnership shared by Intel and Microsoft when it comes to the close alignment of their products.
Speaking in a Reuters news report, Endpoint Technologies Associates analyst Roger Kay commented that Intel’s decision to hold off on Vista is yet another example of the fairly poor enterprise uptake suffered by Microsoft’s latest operating system.
“They look at Vista and say, ‘We’re not going to throw out a bunch of hardware and software,’” he offered, concerning the financial pressures businesses can feel due to the necessity for expensive hardware upgrading, which is often required to effectively handle Vista’s increased power and performance demands.
That potential monetary outlay comes into focus when considering that California-based Intel Corp. presently carries approximately 80,000 employees around the world and runs an expansive network of multibillion dollar fabrication facilities that produce its microprocessors.
Despite the business community’s continuing reticence to fully embrace Vista, Microsoft offers that the operating system is spreading well throughout the mainstream consumer market, claiming that around 140 million copies of Vista have already been installed globally.
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