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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."
Users are permitted to upgrade from Vista to XP.
See, fixed.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
See, I know MS develops buggy code. Even their license generator stop working!
Sorry, I know a lot of people think it's better than Vista, but when did XP become venerable?? Is there some secret meaning for that word that I don't know?
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
I hear Netcraft confirmed it.
Some sales drone had sold him on a Vista laptop, and he got it home before discovering that it wasn't what he expected a computer to look or feel like. Long story short, the guy ended up returning the unit and exchanging it for one of the two models they still stock that come preinstalled with Vista.
"The next day, the guy came back, even more angry..."
I thought this was a joke and then looked it up and it's actually true: The post-Vista version of Windows in development has been dubbed "Windows 7. So it's really true -- the Windows OS is finally catching up to that revolutionary MacOS from 1991, System 7. Windows users will finally be able to take advantage of such innovations as QuickDraw and Balloon Help Congratulations Microsoft!!
Or Xp = Slurm Classic?
Brett
It boils down to the fact that XP is simply not mature enough yet. I run 2000 Pro and am happy with it and I have no intentions of switching to XP anytime soon. Now in a year or two when it's up to service pack 4 AND you can run DOSBox AND software compatibilities are a thing of the past because XP is the target not 2000 then I'll upgrade.
And this old 2000 machine will probably become a Mandrake box then.
Windows 7 will be the product that decides the future of Microsoft. They simply can't afford two crappy releases in a row.
As opposed to how many in the past?
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
LOL! "Multiple choice. XP *or* Vista." Shoot me now.
> In my workplace, we'd LIKE Vista
Please tell me where you work so I can avoid it.
Cheers.
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