Windows Vista lost to XP in the race to Olympic 2008

The latest operating system of Microsoft, Windows Vista, will not be present in the IT infrastructure built to serve the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing, China. In this 'race' to this great festival, Windows Vista was 'coming back' to its predecessor Windows XP.

Xie Long, Olympic Business Department director of Levon - Olympic sponsor, confirmed that Vista did not meet the requirements of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Chinese computer maker Lenovo is one of the official sponsors of the Olympics that will take place in August 2008. Accordingly, Lenovo will provide desktops, laptops and servers to cater for this sports festival.

Although Microsoft and Levono have signed a $ 1 billion contract for preinstalling Windows Vista operating systems on Levono computers, Windows XP will still be the operating system that kicked off the 2008 Beijing Olympics. .

Windows XP will still be the operating system to boot for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

According to a report by ZDNetAsia, Xie Long explained that Windows Vista is not even considered an option for the operating system that supports the IT architecture of the congress. The reason for this is very simple, including the fact that Levono completed all the details of his responsibility for organizing the convention since 2004, when Vista was not born.

If you get the overall Windows Vista operating system for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China will be a great success in Microsoft's marketing campaign. However, the Redmond-based conglomerate missed out on a golden opportunity when it delayed the launch date of the operating system until January 30, 2007.

Of the 300 servers, 800 desktops and 70 notebooks that are part of Lenovo's support plan, Windows Vista will not boot on any system. Vista may have run out of opportunities to become an official operating system at an Olympics when the next conference will take place in 2012 - at this time, Microsoft may have released Windows Seven, The operating system is scheduled for completion in 2009.

Nguyen Nam