Steve Ballmer has offered a glimmer of hope to fans of the company’s Windows XP operating system, saying the company could reconsider its decision to phase out XP in June if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not.
Mr. Ballmer was adamant that “most people who buy PCs today buy them with Vista.”
“That’s the statistical truth,” he told reporters at a news conference at Louvain-La-Neuve University. “If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter.”
Mr. Ballmer said the customers buying PCs with XP are IT departments who are having trouble shifting old machines to newer technology.
I’ve actually heard of corporations that considered their existing base of users as – you guessed it – customers. Making them happy brings in new customers.
As said above – the customers want it but MS is forcing the manufactures to only sell Vista.
I just bought a new laptop – I tried to get on with Vista but it wouldn’t work with my other machines and devices.
So I’m biting the bullet and switching to Ubuntu. Yes I know it will be harder to get everything working with it but I will eventually switch everything over to Linux. I’m saying Bye, Bye to Windows and they can say Bye, Bye to my money!
Well done Microsoft, you are destroying your customer base!