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Microsoft stand-up to Apple

Friday, August 22, 2008 11:54:45 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Stand-up comedian and television star Jerry Seinfeld has been enlisted by Microsoft to help promote Vista.

Mr Seinfeld is to star along with Bill Gates in a number of advertisements refuting allegations that Vista is a failure, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Apple has been behind a number of adverts which have made fun of Vista's alleged problems and Microsoft announced that it was planning an aggressive campaign to help Vista's flagging image.

According to Devil Mountain Software, a market research specialist which runs a community-based testing network, almost 35 per cent of the 3000-plus PCs it had examined had been downgraded from Vista to XP.

This occurred in both the factory and by the user.

'Either these machines were downgraded by [sellers like] Dell or HP, or they were downgraded by the user after they got the machine,' said the company's chief technology officer, Craig Barth.

'In any case, these machines are no longer running Vista.'

Mr Barth also claimed that even when Vista was stripped down to its core components to make it as close to XP as possible, it was still 40 per cent slower.

Source BCS News

   
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