Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

a Vista upgrade is much too expensive for the somewhat marginal improvements you get over XP, then there is the extreme likelyhood of being forced to upgrade the base PC just so Vista can run at a reasonable speed, so the vast majority of sales are the bundled or leveraged sales on new PC's

plus XP will work quite happily with the peripheral equipment people already have, there's a good chance Vista will require people to replace these peripherals as drivers are not available, despite a Vista driver for a new device probably being quite capable of driving the old device (assuming the same manufacturer) after all the manufacturers don't reinvent the device command set every time they make a new device the only major difference is the identification sequence the device gives to the PC

then there are the restriction it gives you when you use it, built in DRM and a nagging UAC that can't tell the difference between an event started from the console and an event started from a web page

so I'm not surprised Vista take up is slow