Dell Will Offer XP Past Cutoff Date

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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Re:Submitter diversity

[ShaunC]

Don't worry, it's just Roland, he forgot he was logged in under his boyfriend's account.

Why do people still want this OS?

[filesiteguy]

I've been a Vista user for over a year now, and am somewhat satisfied with the OS. Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability. It almost even comes close to KDE for a decent UI.

What are the reasons people want to stay with XP?? As it is, I manage 1200 users, and we are happily switching all to Vista (as well as SLED) as we roll out new machines. (This is approximately 400/year.)

Re:Why do people still want this OS?

[Foofoobar]

Translation: I've been a for over a year now, and am somewhat satisfied with the . Compared to it is worlds above in both stability and usability. It almost even comes close to for a decent UI. Ooops... here comes that chair!

Re:Which Scares M$ the Most?

[Macthorpe]

I'm going to go with the hidden 4th option - people who post on Slashdot with that clever little "M$" thing.

I know it gives me the willies just thinking about them.

Re:Ubuntu Instead?

[alex4u2nv]

2012!
When Microsoft stops supporting Win XP, the world will crash!
It was predicted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012

Re:Outlook? You must be crazy.

[drsmithy]

KDE's got better for what people actually use. Outlook had something to offer nine years ago but it's been outclassed big time since. The only thing Outlook really had going for it was device sync but most people gave up PDAs when M$ conquered the market. The things were an expensive toy and people did not buy new ones when their old ones got broken.

Just...wow. How can you even try to have a reasonable discussion with someone like this ?

Re:Ubuntu Instead?

[mhall119]

True, but the open source community can do something... try to create a perfect open-source clone of Windows. Wouldn't a clone of Windows be imperfect by it's very nature?