Now that Vista has been out in the market place for a few months the market is weighing its options. Some of those customers are choosing Microsoft’s older operating system, XP. One of the reasons why people are turning down Vista is that XP works.
Some key pieces of software cannot run in Vista. You can’t balance your checkbook with Vista, Quick Books won’t work. You’re also out of luck if you want to send mail with Lotus Notes, for the same reason. Other problems are happening too. Some pieces of hardware that worked in XP are not working in Vista. You’re video camera with a computer connection may not work properly. Vista may not even recognize it. So what are your options?
Most people are choosing XP to run their software and connect their hardware. Some big PC makers are choosing to roll back to XP for operating their hardware. HP, Lenovo, Dell, and Toshiba are offering XP as an operating system on some computers on their web sites. It seems to be paying off as they are seeing an increase in the sales of those units.
Although Microsoft claims to have made Vista compatible with many different types of hardware and software they have not covered everything. But those are typical growing pains for any new operating system.
Growing pains or not, maybe you should stick with what works, whatever that is.
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