On Feb 4, 2008 1:05 PM, Bob Axtell wrote: > > On the other hand, the company is updating all the software for Vista > > since there are customers who needs Vista. > > > Would you tell us who they are? Why would anybody NEED vista? It is not you need Vista or not. But when the customers start to deploy Vista, the company has to provide Vista support. Otherwise you lose the market share. I can understand that many people got upset with Vista because it breaks quite some traditional usages to get better security or better stability. However, like it or not, Vista will be the dominate OS soon. Microchip is slow in Vista support but they now support Vista 32bit for most of the software/hardware. Microchip USB stack V1.3 even supports Windows Vista 64 bit. But it will be quite difficult to go to Vista 64 as for now. If you do not like Vista, you can stay with Windows XP. Or you can switch to Mac OS X and Linux. You have the choice if you really want to. The major problem with them is third-party software support. And third party support of Vista is getting better and better now. Take note initial acceptance of XP is also low. If we trust the followed Neowin market share data, we can clearly see that XP to Vista transition is on the way. Maybe it is not up to the expectation of Microsoft but it is certainly the case. And I believe that Mac OS X's share rise simply because now Macs can run Windows. For those who still like Windows 2k and Win98, the market share of both are certainly dying. And Linux still has a long way to go to beat your perceived "nobody-will-need" Vista. >From Neowin. http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/09/market-share-2007-mac-os-gains-315-vista-grabs-1048 Windows XP - 76.91% Windows Vista - 10.48% Mac OS - 7.30% Windows 2000 - 2.66% Windows 98 - 0.70% Linux - 0.63% Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist