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June 26 2008
Intel Not Using Vista
Shared by Josh Bancroft
I've known about this for a while, too. It's kind of embarrassing for Microsoft, I think. And for Intel, too, what with all our "use Vista to take full advantage of Intel processors and motherboards" marketing material all over the place. We can't really push people to upgrade to new computers for Vista, now, can we?
I’ve known for a while that Intel won’t be deploying Microsoft Vista internally. Now that the New York Times is reporting on it, you can know too.
Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said.
The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel’s relationship with Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to run smoothly.
“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said.
An Intel spokesman said the company was testing and deploying Vista in certain departments, but not across the company.
