What will the Mac guy say to the PC guy in those cute commercials now? Well, for one thing the Mac guy is going to have plenty of ammunition with Intel's announcement that it is sticking with Windows XP for the time being!
All kidding aside, Intel's decision to hold off on adopting Vista as the de facto operating system is not really a big deal! The company is only echoing what other fortune 1000s are doing. Most large businesses don't rush to hop on the band wagon of the latest and greatest of technologies, unless there is specific and demonstrable reason for doing so. And with Vista, that reason does not exist!
Many studies show that larger enterprises wait as long as 18 months before considering an OS upgrade and let's be realistic here - these are not the best of economic times to be performing a hardware and software refresh.
While Intel's delay to move over to Vista may be bad news for Microsoft, it turns out to be good news for XP users, proving that XP still has plenty of life left in it and can continue to meet the needs of most corporate users, regardless of Microsoft's end of life announcements for the OS.