$50 to Get XP On a New Dell

CWmike writes "Dell will charge customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some PCs after Wednesday, according to the company's Web site. Buyers of the low-priced Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a 'downgrade' from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than they would for Vista only."

Comments

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[willyhill]

Agreed, but at least I do it with only one account instead of eleven.

Re:It's like divorce

[negRo_slim]

Write software that works 90% of the time and crashes randomly 10% of the time (who cares the 10% is during critical computing) Nice the generic windows diss... My only question is, What of us gamers running win boxes that are rock solid? And have never had anything but a rock solid box? Aside from the odd hardware failures that is... ;)

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[willyhill]

How rich is it that you ended up being modded up here, twitter. You've pretty much stopped pretending now, I see.

But seriously, are you really posting these? It seems to be too much of a coincidence that those accounts seem to be posting at the same time you come online, especially this one.

If that's you, I suggest you go get that professional psychiatric help everyone has been telling you about.

They are my biggest fans.

[twitter]

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I'm not employed by Computer World like CWmike is. That would be why he was able to submit the story more than two hours before I saw it.

It's funny but the people who scream at me all day read ALL of the things I write. They are so devoted, I sometimes think they have an archive and database. For all of their slanders and insults, they probably know me better than my mom and probably use Debian for all of their important work. I only wish they did not have so many mod points to bury my comments and the stories I find interesting.

You might enjoy my journal. All of the stories I submit are put there and there have been a few dozen since the last time one was accepted two or three months ago.

Happy Hacking!

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[willyhill]

If that was the case then he wouldn't need to keep creating more and more accounts as the other ones are modded down until they're posting at -1.

I don't even reply to most of his posts, it's impossible to keep up with so many accounts. Don't have that much time :)

I just wanted to point out that I don't agree with the AC that posted about how this was submitted by twitter.

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[dedazo]

You don't understand, twitter lives and dies by Slashdot karma. It is the most important thing for him, to be modded up and his lame journal ramblings accepted by the people he believes are his peers (but generally are just pissed off at him).

If there are a few of us who point out the fact that he has ten or twelve accounts that reply to each other (I mean, for the love of god) and he gets modded down for it, then maybe that will force him to reasses what he's doing. Absolutely nothing is gained by manipulating the moderation system here. Nothing.

Re:You are the troll zoo.

[dedazo]

Uh-oh. twitter, we have a problem. You need to remove this link from your journal. All anyone has to do is click "Parent" a few times to get to this. I don't think it was your intention to reveal your super-secret identity, was it?

I mean, I even carried a link to one of your ramblings outside of Slashdot on my sig for a while because it was absolutely precious, but I removed it because it revealed your name, and who you are in real life is irrelevant to what you're doing here. But if you don't mind at all and you're including links to that in your journal, I'll just start linking to it again.

Re:Hello! You get both operating systems.

[utnapistim]

"Yeah! And he talks like a fag too!"

Re:It's like divorce

[BuckaBooBob]

But the Real question everyone needs to know..

Does it blend?