In order to push Vista adoption among PC users, as most of the current Vista sales originate from OEM and news hardware sales, Microsoft decided to cut prices for Vista. Users will save from 30 to 80USD depending on Vista version.
Despite claims from Redmond's giant, sales of the new OS are not rocketing as expected, and many Pc users are still living happily with XP, or even downgraded new Vista-loaded hardware to previous XP for several reasons, among:
- Vista is much more resource consuming than XP.
- Vista requires a rather powerful graphic card to enjoy all 3D effects available from the system.
- Several applications were and are still incompatible with vista.
- Adding or removing a components or a peripheral is truly a pain with Vista (checking serial numbers, etc.)
- The 64-bits version for Vista is expensive and only few drivers and not optimized drivers are available.
It would also be interesting to get the full figures for OSX, putting into balance the usage of Leopard on older hardware to the adoption of Leopard via the purchase of brand new hardware models.
[translation by Linathael]
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