Microsoft Vista a let down for hardware companies

The India Times says that despite hopes that the hardware requirements of Microsoft's new operating system would lead to a boost in sales of new computers, hardware makers are not seeing much of an upturn.

In fact many have oversupplies from building up their inventory to cope with the expected sales that never eventuated.

Acer's president Gianfranco Lancim said that Vista had been no help and hardware maker's couldn't count on it.

Samsung has added that demand for DRAM computer memory chips from Vista hasn't materialised as fast as it had predicted. Hwang Chang-gyu, semiconductor business president of Samsung Electronics expected the Vista impact on DRAM to appear by April. Now it was being delayed and will probably arrive with Godot in the second half of the year.

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