{"id":632,"date":"2008-08-18T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2008\/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:18:25","slug":"dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Forget About the Dual-Booters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"colorbox-632\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VistaOrb-160.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/> InfoWorld has an article out today wherein Randall Kenney of the \u201cWindows Sentinel\u201d team (a program used to monitor system settings and performance to provide aggregate data for analysis) trashes end-user uptake of Windows Vista by revealing that 35% of surveyed PCs that ship with Vista <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/windows\/bursting-vista-sales-bubble-268\" rel=\"follow\">have downgraded to Windows XP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While that\u2019s a stunning number of Vista-only OEM machines running Windows XP, Mr. Kenney seems to have forgotten about those of us that dual-boot. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.website-unavailable.com\/?wc=EWJsGw9mBhlGGxZwDhYCEx8=&amp;url=nesomart%2Enet%2Fdl%2Ephp%3Fid%3D1\" rel=\"follow\">champions of dual-booters everywhere<\/a>, we\u2019ve got to put our two cents in here.<\/p>\n<p>If you keep in mind the type of people who would install the Windows Sentinel tool and take part in such a geeky program you\u2019ll realize that it\u2019s not too out there for a good number of these people to be the kind that run multiple operating systems on their machines.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obviously not all of Windows Sentinel\u2019s (only) three thousand subscribers are included in the numbers above (it\u2019s highly unlikely that even 80% of the 3000 subscribers are using hardware that only comes from the OEM with Windows Vista installed). And of the percentage that <em>are<\/em> using late-model hardware, a hefty percentage dual-boot.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have any numbers as far as the number of dual-booters out there, but they\u2019re certainly not few enough to be discounted. Keeping that in mind, it\u2019s rather unprofessional of InfoWorld to claim that 35% of all Vista users will downgrade to Windows XP. Obviously big numbers make for better headlines, but this is the kind of stuff that can damage stocks and ruin jobs \u2013 you don\u2019t want that on your conscious, at least, not without good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Not that we\u2019re suffering from any delusions or hallucinations with regards to Windows Vista\u2019s relatively shoddy performance and stability, but you\u2019ll agree that it\u2019s a rather far cry to go from \u201ca lot of people have reservations about upgrading to Windows Vista\u201d to \u201ca lot of people will take the time and effort to remove Vista from a PC and put Windows XP in its stead;\u201d especially keeping in mind that Vista\u2019s been out for two years now and there\u2019s an (unfortunately) increasingly-large number of Vista-only products out there on the market.<\/p>\n<p>More data from InfoWorld and the Windows Sentinel service would certainly be most-welcome in giving a clearer picture of what the actual numbers are and where end-users stand in this OS mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InfoWorld has an article out today wherein Randall Kenney of the \u201cWindows Sentinel\u201d team (a program used to monitor system settings and performance to provide aggregate data for analysis) trashes end-user uptake of Windows Vista by revealing that 35% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[334,119,675,22,4,312,395],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-dual-boot","tag-easybcd","tag-infoworld","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-vista","tag-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}