Vista leads to boom in XP sales
 

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has told its freshmen to buy PCs loaded with Windows XP. One day MIT will start supporting Vista, a spokesman said. But not yet. Comp USA has a huge range of XP machines which it is planning flog during the back-to-school sales season. Circuit City wants to sell nine XP models on its Web site.

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I can't remember shops and companies being so "hostile" to a new OS from Microsoft. When XP was announced, Windows 2000 was quickly replaced on all OEM machines; with Vista this doesn't seem to be the case at all.

considering 50% of all systems sold are portables, not surprising


on a desktop Vista might be an annoyance but on a laptop it is hurting the most crucial value for the customer (battery life)

Don't think battery life is the cause; I have been using Vista laptop since last Feb.
Likely the school system is not ready for Vista. Email client for example could be one of the reasons.

Outlook 2007 works very nicely with Vista fyi ;)

Oh yes, I am using Office 2003, because Office XP outlook is not supported. I have Office 2007 but I am not ready to make the plunge just yet.

Found Outlook 2007 much better than 2003; I used Outlook Express 5.5 eons ago , then switched to 2000 with good success, moved to 2003, didn't see much improvement, switched to Thunderbird, which took a while to get used to an reorganize all 30k+ mails; Tried out Outlook 2007, and was impressed by features and speed, much niftier too than Thunderbird, had to pay $50 to get a good Thunderbird > PDF program, but it was worth it.

At the end of the day though, I find gmail to be an amazingly powerful online email client compared to a full desktop one like Outlook 2007. The only problem I have (with both) is that spam filtering sometimes moves good mails to junk, checking both gmail/outlook allows me to recover most of these good mails from the bad place; but I'm sure many still slip through and get deleted without me ever knowing/reading them.