Windows users who I know are wary of Vista. Some use it because it was on the new laptops or desktops they bought. But there's another option, even if you have a new computer, and lots of people are taking it. They use XP, and "downgrade" off of Vista.
Infoworld has a short story about this (via the Yahoo portal), but you can read about the numbers in lots of places. One in three Vista machines become an XP computer right away.
They can always come back, Microsoft says. Like telling that family member at your sushi restaurant they can always order the sashimi and nigiri if they ever get tired of eating tempura. Here in my house and home office, we use Macs and sometimes, XP on our emulators. We eat the nigiri, sashimi and even ama ebe, with fried shrimp heads included in the last. Tempura? That's an appetizer. Vista? It's in the future, maybe; one IT CEO I know that that it will be replaced by "Windows 7."
But at least Vista is providing interesting stories to hear from friends and read in the trade papers.
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