Intel has decided that it will not upgrade its company's systems to Microsoft Windows Vista, and will instead continue using Windows XP -- reports doing rounds of the Internet seem to suggest.

The reports say that Intel carried out analyses in different departments to find out the usefulness of shifting to Vista. Their final decision seems to suggest that the company didn't find Vista useful enough, at least not for now. However, an Intel spokesperson reportedly said that the company is testing and deploying Windows Vista in certain departments.
Vista has been slow in penetrating the corporate world, and soon it would be time for Windows 7 to be released (expected to release in 2010). Intel's decision only corroborates that apprehension.

It is believed that a prominent factor for large and small enterprises not to adopt Vista is that the system requires a lot of memory as well as expensive hardware upgrades. Microsoft and Intel have a history together, which apparently, includes the latter dismissing an immediate adoption of the latest Microsoft system in the past as well. We're referring to when WindowsXP was launched, and Intel decided to hold on to Windows 2000 refusing to utilize it in the organization for all of its employees. Interestingly, Intel and Microsoft together control almost 80 percent of the global personal computing market.