Computer manufacturers are now beginning to see first-hand the general disillusionment with Windows Vista.Even before public release of the latest version of Microsoft's flagship Operating System, many considered it to be overly bloated and believed its design was focused too much on chatty nag messages and pretty graphics (which themselves require a monstrous spec to get the best out of).
In the four months since the changeover to Vista, portable computing champions Dell have received desperate pleas from consumers to not abandon the old Windows XP system. In response Dell, it will offer XP on four models of Inspiron notebooks and two Dimension desktop PCs.
Michael Silver, research vice president at analysts Gartner seems genuinely puzzled. "This is really odd. On new PCs, consumers usually do want the latest and greatest." Other analysts speculated that the reason consumers were keen on XP was because it was familiar and it worked well with many of the digital peripherals they owned.
Still, perhaps those in economics and business ought to be less hasty to dub Vista "the greatest" just because Microsoft calls it so.
Whether this is continuing customer stubbornness or a genuine backlash from a tried new product, it seems that the general low speed of consumer pickup for Vista has not improved all that much since it was launched. This means that even using the product didn't change people's minds…
