“Microsoft will continue to sell both retail and OEM (pre-installed) copies of Windows XP for five months more than originally planned,” MacNN reports.
“The software developer has encountered an unprecedented level of resistance to its Windows upgrade since its release early this year, with large-scale computer builders such as Dell restoring an XP option either due to a lack of stable hardware drivers or customer complaints relating to software compatibility and performance. Microsoft recently began offering an XP downgrade licensing option for system builders who wanted to let customers fall back to the earlier OS for systems that would normally ship with Vista,” MacNN reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You know something seriously sucks when Windows XP is the preferred option. Sometimes we don’t know whether to laugh at or pity the sufferers, so we alternate between both. Get a Mac: it’s what you really want.
Incredible! could you imagine Apple dropping back to OS 9? LOL!
The hilarity. Looks like the only thing going well for Microsoft is Halo 3.
It’s the Vistapocalypse.
And Ballmer just squirted himself.
Vista is the best thing to happen to Apple since the return of Steve Jobs.
Imagine… all the PC makers of the world except Apple depend on Microsoft to provide a viable OS. Microsoft is going to bring them all down, and Apple will benefit greatly.
“Looks like the only thing going well for Microsoft is Halo 3.”
Yes, and the innovative minds in the MS marketing department have decided that this game may help spawn sales of other MS products.
They’re going to call it, (wait for it) the Halo Effect.
Yeah, baby, OS 9. That’s the ticket! Gimme back the ’90s, please!!!
I’m so happy I don’t use Windows machines.
Don’t you miss extension conflicts, SCSI IDs, hard freezes and fragmented drives?
I agree that Vista has got to be the best thing to happen to Apple in recent memory. I’m switching over to Mac after years of suffering and hoping Microsoft and the PC world would get their act together (15 years is plenty long enough to wait for change). How can Microsoft self-destruct like this? How can they be completely relying upon Halo 3 to do well?
Their brand image is miraculously now worse than it was a couple years ago and that is sad. Fundamentally one has to ask the following key question – how can a major software company with really deep coffers after over 20 years of experience writing and selling programs still have major quality control issues?
Vista backlash? I smell fear from the MAC lemmings as the MAC propaganda machine is running at full steam today. You can play games on Vista and install it on your choice of hardware. Can you say the same for your MACs? Of course not.
Vista is the best thing to happen to Windows enthusiasts since the coronation of the terrific Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO—BTW great job on Vista, Steve. Let me put this in words you MAC lemmings might comprehend: I’ve seen the future of MAC OS XII to be released in 2013 and it’s called Microsoft Windows Vista. Apple knows this and they’re scrambling. Expect Leopard to be delayed another couple of years just to match half of Vista’s awesome features and save face. Dorks.
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<h4>And yet, everybody keeps talking about how they’re going to buy it after it gets all fixed up… Or better yet I’ll just stick with my good ole XP… I’m just gonna keep buyin my Windows… Duh, there just ain’t nothin else out there, uh, duh…</h4>
Ok, I guess I just can’t talk about his anymore it just pisses me off too much.
MW=”told” – As in, you’re been told.
…As in, you’ve been told.
Give your enemy enough rope to hang himself and get out of their way.
Sounds like Microsoft found the rope!
To play Devil’s Advocate, there was a very large contingent of anti-OS X Macolites when it was first introduced. And I know there are STILL a few holdouts using OS 9. Apple’s control of the entire product made it easier to ‘encourage’ its users to move to arguably ‘not-ready-for-prime-time’ first release of OS X. Apple new it had to push people out of their comfort zones to move to a system that would ultimately allow them to move forward. Microsoft has long been saddled with a universe of users that values legacy more than progress. Vista may be a mess, but if Apple had the same business model and user base as MS, it would have been faced with the same mutiny over the OS9/OSX move as MS now faces with XP/Vista.
@information junkie
I think you answered your own question.
MW=”why” – As in, why ask why [anymore]?
…You can play games on Vista and install it on your choice of hardware…
Is that all vista Does
Tang. Please can you use correct name, Mac as in Macintosh.
You can play games on mac not as many, but many good ones.
And you cannot install Windows on any hardware
it must be a Intel 086 type CPU. so you must buy this harware,
Mac hardware is a lesser choice here but most people find a machine.
It really doesn’t matter what MS puts out there, 2/3-9/10 of the planet is going to buy it sooner or later anyway – we don’t care enough to buy something else, what incentive does MS have to do anything well – or even passable. IT’S JUST CREEPY!!!
Ok really, I’ve got to stop reading this page – it just makes me mad. I’m off to get my chill pill.
Hum…. Halo 3….
Oh… The one with the limited edition where the disk bounces around in the case so when you open it up. Its unplayable and since limited cant get a replacement?
Oh… The one where its causing RRoD, Crashing etc on Xbox 360….
Oh… The one where you may not be able to move save games around to another Xbox 360
Oh… The one that basically people are saying it lower rez then other games… Reviewer for months have stated the graphic are not that good…
Oh… The remaster cut seens on the limited edition look horrible!
Oh… And finally looks like a retread of previous versions….
That game must be from Microsoft… ^_^
Vista will continue to be awful, forever.
As my boss used to say when purchasing tried to make him use crummy electrical components…”You can’t make chicken salad from chicken shit.”
Speaking of chicken shit….How’s Balmer taking the news?
Just my $0.02
That was the funniest Zune Tang post I’ve read in a few weeks.
> Vista is the best thing to happen to Windows enthusiasts since the coronation of the terrific Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO—BTW great job on Vista, Steve.
I’m laughing my head off… “Windows enthusiasts” – wow, that’s great humor.
good point, Spark.
thankfully, this is only a “what if” and by and large Mac users dont have to deal with such a situation.
@ Spark: “And I know there are STILL a few holdouts using OS 9.”
Yes, I know some of them too. In general, it’s jusst fear of change. When I go back to look at my old make running 9 I can’t believe how clunky it feels.
I was in the audience in Paris when Steve announced the OS X beta. I took a copy back to my hotel room that night and installed it. It was a beta but it became my main OS that night. Classic ran quite well to bridge the gap and I’ve been Classic free for a very long time now.
The OS 9 holdouts are nowhere near as numerous (percentage-wise) as are the XP rebels. With good reason.
I can understand driver issues, Tiger to Leopard will no doubt have issues with certain apps – maybe not to a great extent but there will be some issues. The thing with OS X is that the quality of the rest of the system will be such that people will be willing to put up with any side issues to reap the many benefits of the upgrade. If they aren’t they’ll just wait a few months.
The extended sale of XP is just damning on the quality (or lack of) of Vista. If it was any good then customers would flock to it and other companies would be under huge pressure to update drivers because Windows has such a huge share. As it is people just aren’t interested and when you consider the lock in that Microsoft exert on the market this is even more of a sign that Vista sucks and everyone knows it.
Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office are platforms for partners to develop solutions for the enterprise–in their own words. Office 2007 is designed as a SharePoint client. SharePoint itself is a configuration-management system adapted for office use, which you can see because it lacks any workflow features.
This is why there are so many secret passages and tunnels in Windows and Office, such as ActiveX and other methods of elevating permissions without notifying the user. It also explains why the whole thing works out to be one big program with a single point of failure. Windows is a house that is standing only because the termites are holding hands, and if one needs to scratch his nose the whole thing comes tumbling down. It is actually designed that way on purpose because it is a client for a larger system. That is why it requires a trained system administrator. Windows-Server-SQL Server-SharePoint-Exchange-Office form a single, integrated platform for partners to develop solutions for the enterprise.
From this we can come to two conclusions:
1. Windows and Office don’t work for us because not designed for us.
2. The question is not “why doesn’t the Mac have viruses?” The proper question is, “what are the ways in which Windows’ architecture has the side-effect of making viruses possible?”
M$’s problem is that they do not work as a team. Their software development system is a nightmare and nothing can be done properly or efficiently. The company got too big for their own good.
I hope Apple never fall into that trap. Please let innovation be the main driving force for a long time.
Who cares. I have an iMac running both Mac OS X and XP Pro (a copy I bought almost 6 years ago now) so I can run anything I want anyway. I don’t waste time worrying about what Microsoft is up to anymore.