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Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP
mytrip pointed out a News.com story about a new Microsoft program to allow PC makers to downgrade from Vista to XP if they so choose. They're still pushing the new version of Windows very hard, but the option now exists for PC resellers to offer the now venerable OS. This is especially interesting as the article points out that OEM licenses for XP officially run out at the end of January. "Hewlett-Packard also started a program in August for many of its business models. 'For business desktops, workstations and select business notebooks and tablet PCs, customers can configure their systems to include the XP Pro restore disc for little or no charge,' HP spokeswoman Tiffany Smith said in an e-mail. She said it was too soon to gauge how high customer interest has been. 'Since we've only been offering (it) for about a month, we don't really have anything to share on demand.' A Microsoft representative confirmed there were some changes made over the summer to the options computer makers have with respect to XP, but the representative was not immediately able to elaborate on those changes."
Yeah, sadly 2k3 and 2k7 are pretty much exactly the same, save 2k7 has more bloat. OOo all the way.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
reality translation: you met with a workstation janitor at washington mutual who shared the same pipe dream bias as yourself.
where's the mention of old standby systems? big iron deployment? legacy systems? did this bank magically cease deploying xp workstations to all of the 80k employees? or was this really just the "IT chief" of an intranet document server?
your silly lies melt like melty stuff exposed to some balmy weather.