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Story: Windows Vista turns one year old
How many are left?
I remember the debacle that was Windows Millenium Edition.
One year after launch, how many of the consumer machines that were sold preinstalled with ME were actually still running it?
I recommended Win98 on any that I came across, and I'd go out on a limb here and guess that there are precious few ME machines left worldwide.
I wonder how many of the machines sold with Vista are still running exclusively on that OS?
I'd hazard a guess that at least 50% of them are running on XP by now.
I have a dual boot setup and I dont touch it. I hate the way my machine runs hotter and slower when I use Vista just to get a little more eye candy.
Time to face facts:
Numbers of licenses sold is NOT indicative of numbers of installations still in use.
It's a deeply unpopular Operating System among the corporates due to increased hardware requirements, license costs, support time, bugs etc.
The consumer carrot is DX10 and it's already been stated by many sources that a:- DX10 can do nothing that isn't already inherently possible with DX9, and b:- DX10 can theoretically run on XP.
I think Redmond have been trying their hardest to persuade the world that Vista isn't the ME of the decade, but I for one fail to be convinced.
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