How Big A Flop Is Vista?

October 19, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson

UK retail group claims the failure of Vista has cost them millions.

Windows Vista has its fans and its critics. British retail group DSG, which owns electronics and appliance company Currys and PC World, is definitely in the latter camp.
 
It claims that the failure of Vista has cost them about $40 million in lost revenue. Customers have stayed away from new computers running Vista, and there was never the anticipated rush to buy boxed copies of the OS.
 
The company has ordered plenty of new machines, especially laptops, anticipating users would want to upgrade, but it never materialized. Likewise, OS sales were far less than expected, in part because of Vista’s hardware requirements, which meant it wasn’t compatible with older PCs.
 
DSG Finance Director Kevin O’Byrne also expressed his disappointment with the lack of promotional support from Microsoft on Vista and told the Guardian,
 
"We thought many more customers than transpired would want to change their existing hardware."

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Scott Free on Jan 11th, 2008 at 9:38 PM:

Vista is the biggest POS os to come from MS since ME. I can not tell you how many apps just do not work properly with it. Vista is garbage don't waste your time/money, stick with XP or go with a free distro of linux. Thanks for reading and good luck!

James on Jul 10th, 2008 at 3:08 PM:

Couldn't agree more. Except: consider OSX as I did. It is so so so unbelievably better then Vista. And otherwise go for Linux.

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