Lenovo Sticking To Windows XP At Beijing Olympics

Although not much of a surprise, Lenovo has announced that none of their ‘important’ PCs sent to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games will be running Windows Vista, but instead they will be sticking to the tried and true Windows XP. Computers that will be used by the athletes in their downtime will be running Vista, however. Leon Xie of Lenovo stated the reason for choosing XP was because, “At the Olympics, we need the most reliable and stable system”. Stability is not an area where Vista has excelled, sadly.

Lenovo, the official computing sponsor of the games, has already delivered 12,000 desktop PCs and 2,000 printers to the organizers in Beijing, in addition to 800 laptops and 700 servers. Another 5,000 PCs were sent over for the athlete’s lounges and other hospitality and marketing purposes. The desktop systems include mainly Lenovo ThinkCentre M55s, while the laptops include both Thinkpad T60s and Zhaoyang 680s. The server systems include SureServer models T350, R630 and R520.

Source: Yahoo News