Less than a year after its much-hyped rollout of Vista, Microsoft is giving in to the demands of computer manufacturers and business users by allowing a return to XP. Dell already offer customers a choice of O/S in response to demand from buyers. Now Microsoft itself is offering an XP downgrade option to Vista Business and Vista Ultimate users, but hard luck on those with Vista Home Premium and Home Basic who are still stuck with the new O/S.

The revolt against Vista is hardly surprising after its less-than-stellar launch, and follow-up customer reviews have been mixed. Its bread-and-butter customer base has also proved reluctant to implement Vista because of the accompanying need for costly upgrades to peripherals, a problem Microsoft obviously didn't foresee.

Visibly worried at the speeded up encroachment of Apple into its market, Microsoft predicted that Vista adoption will pick up next year.

Kate

On of my sons bought new Acer laptop last week, with Vista, as back up for his old existing one, which has WinXP..
Already complaining, given new one to his wife, uses old one for himself.

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It doesn't surprise me, there are some true horror stories regarding Vista. If it came wrapped in red ribbon and five pound notes I still wouldn't want it.

Kate

The way it's going, Vista is going to be the next ME. MS had better do something spectacular with SP1 to rescue it, otherwise it's going to be put on the list of OSs that MS would rather forget about alongside ME & DOS4.

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