According to the New York Times, a person familiar with Intel’s intentions but who wanted to keep its anonymity said that the giant chip maker will not upgrade to Vista for its about 80,000 employees. The company said that it has made the decision based on the feedback it got from its IT department, which said that it sees no reason to make the upgrade.

Even though this is the case for most of the company, it seems that there are certain departments where Vista might be adopted eventually. According to Reuters, an Intel employee said that they are “testing and deploying Windows Vista in certain departments.”

This wouldn’t be the first time that the chip maker is showing reluctant to adopting its long time partner’s latest operating system. Back in 2001, when XP hit the market, Intel delayed switching to it by saying that it plans to keep using Windows 2000, at least for a while.

Experts consider that it is normal for big companies to delay switching to the latest OS on the market, in order to wait and see if there are bugs so that they can purchase a safer version that the first one. However, Vista’s release more that a year and a half ago should have convinced a lot more companies to adopt it, if only they saw any value in it.

The main reason for Microsoft’s latest OS lack of success is the fact that adopting Vista also implies getting a more powerful computer, since the operating system is known for its greed for resources.

Regardless of the fact that Vista is not convincing people, Microsoft is still making some nice profit out of it, thanks to the fact that people get it together with their new computers, even if they would like an XP instead.