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PC Makers Offering a Bridge Back To XP

Posted by kdawson on from the bridge-too-far dept.

The Telegraph is reporting on efforts by PC manufacturers to give customers buying systems pre-installed with Windows Vista a much-sought way to downgrade to Windows XP. ( A few months back we discussed Microsoft's similar concession for corporate customers.) "It took took five years and $6 billion to develop, but Microsoft's Vista operating system, which was launched early this year, has been shunned by consumers — with computer manufacturers taking the bizarre step of offering downgrades to the old XP version of Windows."

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  1. typo in summary by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It took took five years and $6 billion to develop"

    Who's took? He must've been a genius to develop Vista with only $6 billion! :P

    1. Re:typo in summary by The+Relentless · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm pretty sure the typo was "downgrade" It should read "upgrade"

  2. Why hang on to the old? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone should be running the newest of Windows, which is Windows Vista! People who still get by with XP are uncool and stick-in-the-muds. Windows Vista on a Wacom-enabled Tablet PC is the way to go! And Windows Vista to me seems much faster with the new wallpapers! I love Microsoft and everything they do. Products like Vista and Office 2007 are brilliant. I really have a mancrush on Steve Ballmer, too.

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    I love Microsoft! I want a job at Microsoft!

    1. Re:Why hang on to the old? by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 5, Funny

      whoops, forgot to log on

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  3. Comment summary: by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny
    The following comments will be posted by various people to this article
    • Someone saying that this is the end of Microsoft's monopoly.
    • Someone saying that the exact same thing happened with XP, and people will have to change over the next Holiday season.
    • Someone complaining that their very common hardware doesn't work with Vista
    • Someone saying that they have managed to get all their equipment running right out of the box with Vista, including some obscure piece of hardware.
    • Someone complaining that even on a 2 GHz processor with 2 gigs of memory, Vista crawls
    • Someone saying that people should stop complaining about Vista performance, because they got it working on a P2-266 with 128 megs of RAM.
    • Someone saying that with Vista's failure, this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
    • And someone saying that until Grandma can write an e-Mail, Linux isn't ready for the desktop.

    All of the parties will provide various slightly off-topic and apocryphal anecdotes and statistics to support their position.
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    Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
  4. Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing I decided not to pirate Windows Vista. That would have been embarrassing.