Sometimes I get paranoid that my own experiences with Windows Vista may be jaundiced.

I have installed it about 25-30 times and cant get passed a week without a severe crash even on SP1 on brand new hardware.

But it would appear Intel is giving Windows Vista a wide berth.

From the article

Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said.

This is significant for the following reasons

1) Intel make the CPU’s that run Vista.

2) Intel make the motherboards and chipset’s that run Vista.

3) Intel make the network cards both wired and wireless that keep vista connected.

Even with so many hooks into how a system will operate even they wont use it.

They quote

“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said.

Pretty damming really.

Link: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html?ref=technology

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