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Windows 7 can’t come fast enough! The New York Times is reporting that Intel has decided against upgrading its 80,000 employees to Windows Vista. An Intel spokesperson told the Times that Vista is being tested and deployed in certain departments, but not company-wide.
Although the enterprise push to upgrade to Vista has fallen short of expectations, this is a particularly brutal blow. Intel is one of Microsoft’s oldest and most important partners; both companies became industry leaders in huge part because of that partnership.
Even though the Times’ Intel source made efforts to say that the decision wasn’t about “dissing Microsoft,” we doubt that’ll make Steve Ballmer feel any better. Can you envision what that conversation is going to sound like?
Despite the lack of widespread corporate adoption, the install base for Windows Vista is 140 million worldwide — hardly peanuts. Still, with huge corporations declining to upgrade their systems, Microsoft has had to extend support for Windows XP through 2014.
Thanks Mike!
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