Consumers Demand XP Over Vista
In what must be taken as the biggest implicit blow Microsoft’s Vista has taken, it seems customers are requesting to have XP instead of Vista. Customer demand is so great for XP over Vista that Dell changed its policy midstream and today announced that is once again offering consumers the chance to take XP instead of Vista.
Dell and Microsoft play it down as an innocuous move, but take note that this was totally consumer driven. It wasn’t just a handful of tech geeks (they would have gone for Ubuntu anyway). It’s not often that a massive company like Dell does an about-face on product offerings. The only explanation for the move to re-issue systems with XP is that there’s a substantial cultural undercurrent that is not happy with Windows Vista.
To be honest, I can’t say that I’m one of them. I use Vista and actually like it. Wouldn’t go back to XP. But, I’ve gotta call things as I see them, and the way I see things right now is that Microsoft has a major problem with public perception of Vista (probably not helped by the Mac vs PC commercials!)
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Comments / What do you think?
April 20th, 2007
I disagree with this conclusion. I think people are just comfortable with XP…it’s been around the block and they know that while it’s not perfect, it is stable and works well with peripherals and software packages. But Vista is new, and no matter how great of a job MS does, there are going to be problems with compatability for some people. It will not always be Microsoft’s fault either, but I think it will take another year before the majority of the little annoyances are ironed out. I refused to upgrade to XP for a year for the same reason, and plan to do the same with Vista. In my opinion, this is how America generally works with new technology. 90% of the population waits for the other 10% to iron out the problems before we jump on board.
April 20th, 2007
That may be true, but then wouldn’t you think that a multinational company like Dell would have this figured out? Wouldn’t they anticipate these trends with their policies, rather than changing midstream?
I’m using Vista right now and I love it, but my sense is that there is a cultural undercurrent against Vista that wasn’t there with XP.
April 20th, 2007
Vista is neat, don’t get me wrong…
I’m a gamer and a software developer. Vista just doesn’t work for me. Game frame rates dropped, T&L was funky, Punkbuster wouldn’t work, etc. My dev environment isn’t vista compatible and what did run produced tons of errors. It’s going to be an XP office for the foreseeable future for us.
April 22nd, 2007
Vista? They should have named it Waterloo.
April 23rd, 2007
I’ve tried both and sold both (I sell computers), and I still like XP. Why? For me I need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my machine and Vista doesn’t really do that for me.
Not to mention, lots of the specialized software I use doesn’t work well on Vista or at all.
I can sum it up in the following statement:
XP runs fast
Vista is a crawling beauty
April 26th, 2007
Microsoft made a big mistake by releasing their “Vista upgrade analysis tool”. You run this thing and it tells you half your programs aren’t going to or may not work with Vista, so when you call Dell, of course you’re going to ask for XP. You’re right, it’s completely consumer driven, no way Dell wants the hassle of offering two Windows OS options.
April 27th, 2007
Jon is right.. My friends who have upgraded to Vista find themselves unable to play most of their games and use their programs. Sadly one of them lost his XP cd and can’t go back now..
April 27th, 2007
Yep. I bought 2 games to play on my Vista machine, one (empire earth 2) was a hassle to get working, but wasn’t designed for Vista. The other, Defcon, was designed for Vista, but still had hiccups.
May 3rd, 2007
I still think this is not much different than when XP came out. My brother and I both refused to upgrade from 98 to XP, because of system performance and game compatibility issues. At the time, Windows 98 ran everything faster and ran all our games with no issues, because the main kinks had been worked out of 98. And XP, while allowing for more memory and faster performance potential, also used more resources so ran slower on the same system. But, after a year or two, I upgraded. By that point, games were compatible, video cards were compatible, and everything ran more smoothly. I believe this will happen again with Vista, but of course I could be wrong.
May 23rd, 2007
Windows Vista…I have found out the hard way about Vista compatability, it would be nice if developers would take previous o/s compatability into account when releasing new versions. Although compatability issues exist, Vista is a very nice o/s and will probably take a little while to gather a loyal following.
July 30th, 2007
Hi have vista home premium installed in my laptop…i want to install xp …but dnt have a CD, instead i have the whole setup in my pendrive and the key aswell.How can I install it…whenever i try to install it thru boot sequence…it starts installing something and stops after a messsage”mouse driver installed successfully”. i am unable to figure it out…even tried with microsoft virtual machine application but the same thing happened again.
August 2nd, 2007
I think the problem is that you are trying to install XP over Vista. Are you planning on a dual boot setup? If you are, then XP should be installed first then you install Vista next. If you are planning on installing over Vista then the best thing that you can do is to reformat your drive and start with a fresh install.
February 1st, 2008
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