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Dell Will Offer XP Past Cutoff Date

Posted by Soulskill on from the dude-you're-getting-a-more-functional-os dept.

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, brings news that Dell will be offering Windows XP pre-installed on their computers past the June 30 cut-off date. Computers purchased with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate past June 30 will come with a copy of XP Pro. Dell plans to simply install that copy upon request to save users a step. Perhaps this will help Microsoft officials make up their minds about another extension.

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  1. People still BUY Windows? by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't people just rip a copy off and install it ?

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  2. better idea by ILuvRamen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They'd be better off just rewriting all the stuff that's old and sucks in XP and leaving everything else like the basic design and functionality and call it XP2 instead of just extending XP. Then at least they could make some money. Or they should just give up except then people would probably be dumb enough to use macs instead of Linux and I think we all know that would be worse than anything Microsoft could ever put out.

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  3. Re:Ubuntu Instead? by weicco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is Slashdot crowd concerned how long Microsoft is selling and/or supporting Windows XP all the sudden? I thougth it is common understanding here that Vista sucks and is bringing MS down to bankcruptcy or whatever. So why shouldn't stop selling XPs, in your point of view?

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