Experts said WinXP SP3 release may affect Vista sales


The industry is expected, XP SP3 is released, the majority of corporate users will promptly follow up to ensure that corporate users of internal network security. Microsoft said earlier that, XP SP3 the use of a new type of network access protection (NAP) security technology. NAP technology was first used Vista operating system, aims to enforce a user’s machine safety requirements.

Market research firm Butler Group analyst Roy Illsley said that while Microsoft has previously vigorously promote Vista, but the effect is not obvious. In XP SP3 is released, the majority of corporate users will continue to use XP operating system, the short term will not be eager to upgrade to Vista, which will consider skip directly to upgrade to Vista Windows 7.

IT services consulting firm Capgemini, vice president of technical services Steve Sutton also pointed out that the current situation, the use of Vista is not the number of corporate customers too much, “Capgemini’s customers, Jihumeiren advice to me on the upgrade to Vista Problems. “Prior to a user, compared with the XP operating system, Vista’s hardware requirements higher, and overall performance and stability is not satisfactory.

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