Is Windows Vista in Trouble?

Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"

Now if only...

[Tofystedeth]

Dell would release PCs running XP without all the other crap it might be worth buying one. Maybe...

Dell + Ubuntu

[easyEmu]

Don't forget that Michael Dell installed Ubuntu on 1 out of 23 of his personal laptops!

Re:It was trouble

[Glonoinha]

They weren't slipping their release date.
They were just waiting for hardware performance to catch up.

You got it wrong

[oringo]

My friends, this is but another clever marketing strategy for M$ to sell more copies of Windows XP!

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[jokerr]

Because Aqua is the coolest thing out there...oh wait!

Re:Preaching to the choir

[Archangel Michael]

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Damn lamemess filter

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[Intron]

but, but, under specs it says Vista is

"Most secure Windows® ever"

OEM Licensing

[Detritus]

Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One [things.org].

There's a VISTA PC on my desk

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody touches it, nobody cares. It just sits there, a Dual Processor Dual Core Hyperthreaded monster and nobody thinks its worth the time to even login.

Even I don-t touch it because the fan is noisy, all that eye candy and gloss and the noisy fan outweighs it.

I'm typing this on Feisty Fluffer, no Funky Feaster, no Finkle Fungerstein, oh whatever the latest Ubuntu is called. It's far from perfect, the keyboard layout doesn't know the Spanish keyboard I have (where are those damn brackets_ and why is the question mark an underscore__). The typefaces are not as good as Windows, the status bar is too high and the icons too amateur, but so far 2 people have asked me for a copy of the disk.

So yes Vista is in trouble, big big trouble. It-s a big yawn, it's late and the stories we hear of privileges being determined by filename etc. mean I just don-t want to waste time with it.

What do you mean

[SnarfQuest]

What do you mean, slow starter.

They've already sold 244 copies in China!

Re:It's great, but...

[Last_Available_Usern]

Well because it has better secur...errr, I mean, the driver support is muc...well, ok, you may have me there.

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[$RANDOMLUSER]

"Most secure Windows® ever"

Isn't that kind of like being the prettiest checkout clerk at Wal-Mart?

Re:You got it wrong

[clgoh]

Like the New Coca Cola thing was to sell more Classic Coca Cola?

Re:No, It's Not

[jez9999]

As much as the media may want it to be, there is no competition in a market with a Monopoly.

Oh come on, I think there is. I can think of several off the top of my head; Snakes & Ladders, Hungry Hungry Hippoes, Cluedo, etc.

Re:You got it wrong

[__aaclcg7560]

I thought New Coke was to get more people to buy Pepsi.

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[pci]

no at least there is hope for the best looking employee at a Wal-mart

Vista is akin to being the highest quality steak at Ponderosa

Re:It was trouble

[jez9999]

There is absolutely nothing to get excited about with Vista.

The 'wow' starts now! How can you not get excited about that??

Re:Preaching to the choir

[Anonymous Coward]

Did the submitter know this is /.? Plenty of us here think the answer is yes, and have been thinking that for a loooong time. I'm more interested in anone here who thinks Vista will do well, and why. So step right up and change my mind, let me know why you think Vista will eventually dominate. And I need a better argument than "800-pound gorilla".

900-pound gorilla WITH a banana

Re:It's great, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

The new UI is 95% of the reason to move to Vista. If you are going to disable it then why use Vista over XP at all?

So you can get practice clicking "Cancel" or "Allow" of course!! All the cool kids are doing it!!

Re:You got it wrong

[mrchaotica]

Bah, it's still not the real Coca-Cola until they put the cocaine back!

Re:You are just wrong...

[Belial6]

I'm sorry, I thought we were conversing in English. Your use of the term 'communist dictatorship' and inability to understand the similarity between other legally required services with services that MS might be required to provide, indicates that you are using some other language that I am unfamiliar with, which makes this thread pointless. Hopefully, there is enough overlap in our two languages for you to make out what this posts says.

Re:You got it wrong

[Stormx2]

Can you guys stop arguing about syrup? Not all of us live in canada you know...

Re:You got it wrong

[wc_paladin]

well you know what they say about snopes [xkcd.com].

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[Anonymous Coward]

porn

Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS!

[lightversusdark]

I haven't seen this for a few days.
I was actually beginning to get a bit worried.
Just as one human being to another, I'm glad you're ok.

Re:You got it wrong

[McFadden]

Actually, I'm finding that XP works better than fine, it works great.

I'm thinking this is a very clever move by Microsoft. Having suffered for years with endless rants and moans about how lame XP is, suddenly people are beginning to show it love. All they gotta do is repeat the cycle, release an even worse OS in a few years, and suddenly everyone will be praising Vista.

Re:Vista and XP activation is your first level of

[Anonymous Coward]

I am calling you out on your douchebaggery

Non, non! Je ne me douche pas!

Re:Why Upgrade at all?

[im_thatoneguy]

Wow I didn't know someone could hate themselves that much.

Don't believe the troll...

[Fhqwhgadss]

wipe it with the cd dell gives you...

I tried your suggestion and had to immediately run for the plunger; and now I also have a pretty bad rash. Thanks jerk.

Re:Vista is too much

[petrus4]

Why? Why on earth? What do all these versions do and why do I need to do research into that before I can buy?

Yeah.

"Please God, don't make me use my brain! I'll do anything...anything but that!"