Windows 98 turns 10; Vista turned down.

Kyle Whittington — Fri, 11/07/2008 - 16:32

Not so long ago Windows 98 had it's 10th Birthday. PC-Pitstop, to celebrate this, ran a benchmark across the three major releases of Microsoft operating systems since the release of Windows 98, namely - 98, XP and Vista. The results weren't really all to surprising... or were they? What's not surprising is how Microsoft have stopped allowing manufacturers to supply OEM versions or any versions for that matter of Windows XP. Perhaps this is because the only way you can get children to eat vegetables is to give them no other choice? This particular vegetable is totally average.

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/04/03/windows-98-turns-70-in-dog-years/

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Yeah, hardly a surprise

Quinn Reynolds — Mon, 14/07/2008 - 08:20

I've never even run Vista and I could've told you that, just from my experiences trying to use it on other people's machines (usually in the process of removing it to reinstall WinXP :).

What's quite interesting is that a number of large companies have essentially told MS that they don't want Vista on their desktops, and will rather wait out the cycle until Windows 7 arrives. Instead of arguing bitterly, MS have quietly promised to support XP until 2014 or thereabouts; perhaps even they had an inkling that Vista isn't all it's cracked up to be.