Word is trickling out that Intel has decided against upgrading its 80,000 employee’s computers to Microsoft’s Vista operating system. I wonder why? Vista’s reception has only been slightly better than Windows Millennium was. It is worse than Girlfriend 1.0, with nag screen after nag screen. Performance lags behind XP across the board, who would want to adopt Vista? It is the ugly stepchild and if many companies can swing it they will leave it on Microsoft’s doorstep, hoping the next version of Windows due out in 2010 is something better.
Nytimes.com cites an anonymous source at Intel as saying, “This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” The article goes on to say that Intel’s decision is certain to sting Microsoft because of the companies close working relationship.
We can hope that this serves as a reminder to Microsoft of what we want and do not want in Windows 7.
If you're planning on purchasing a new PC with XP preinstalled, do it before the end of the month. June 30th marks Microsoft's 
