Dell, Intel to Delay Internal Vista Deployment until SP1

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

My upgrade to Vista is pretty much complete, though I am still tweaking (finding and fixing issues like slow networking copying, etc.) and installing software. It’s interesting that I am upgrading a Dell laptop, and Dell and Intel have both told ZDNet UK that they would be delaying widespread deployment until SP1. In fact, with Intel, they indicate that part of the decision is that most of their employees use laptops, and “Centrino Pro is a far more capable platform [than the previous version of Centrino] based on the performance delivered by the Centrino core.” I haven’t been having any issues with my XPS M1710, but …

Mueller said that Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Vista would be “tied to the [Centrino Pro] platform” within Intel’s internal IT plan, but he suggested that Intel had delayed its Vista rollout in any case, in order to “make sure that all our internal applications operate with Office 2007 and Vista”.

Dell has also not yet rolled out Vista internally although its director of client marketing for EMEA, Eric Greffier, said it is “very close” to doing so. “We are pretty much in the same position as Intel within Dell,” he said on Thursday. Source: ZDNet UK

We Say: Well, as I’ve previously said, I don’t see any compelling reason to move to Vista if you are already using XP. Of course, this discussion for Dell and Intel centers around deployment of new HW, but it’s still interesting, nonetheless.