$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

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, this is so important. I'm glad now I know about blah blah blah operating systems on X computers. I'll probably spend the rest of my day thinking about boring computer operating systems.

Ask for refund.

[willlyhill]

Say NO to M$ Spyware!

Re:Wasting money

[Sun.Jedi]

Look, I know xp is what everyone wants, but it should be obvious that the days are numbered for this company. There. Fixed that.
+5 flaimbate.

but, but,

[willeyhill]

I always thought Windows came free with your computer.

Re:Downgrade?

[AndrewNeo]

Can you please list all this "DRM crap" that comes with Vista? I'm being serious, I want to know what you think it is.
Because Protected Video Path only gets put into use with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content.

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[Odder]

Somehow, the Vista failure log is on topic. I can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah, people paying for the most expensive version of Vista and then another $50 just to avoid Vista. Vista avoidance as a profit center is not what M$ had in mind here.

Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again!

[willyhill]

No, I don't think it's twitter. This news is on most tech rags now, so it follows that more than one person would eventually submit it. twitter spends all his time writing up "M$ teh evilz" journal entries that no one reads, so it's not surprising that he also posted it, I guess.

The fact that he's descended on this article with quite a few of the sockpuppets is just a reflection of how juicy this article is for him.

There's an interesting new development though. He seems to be creating new accounts dedicated solely to GNAA-like trolling:

http://slashdot.org/~twittter
http://slashdot.org/~twiiiter
http://slashdot.org/~willlyhill

I wouldn't pay much attention to these except for the fact that they seem to be active at the same time all of twitter's other "legitimate" sockpuppets are as well.

Dude, it's worse than that.

[ibane]

Twitter does not work for Computer World, this whole thread is a huge troll, as are most of the Twitter outings.

Re:I resemble that comment

[Odder]

No, I did not see that. Thanks.

More people are working on GNU/Linux than Vista.

[Odder]

It's true but someone does not want you to know it. Twitter's comment in that tread was informative. It's too bad the trolls got him and the story and amazing how they brag about it.

Re:It's like divorce

[morgan_greywolf]

Windows users don't see crashes, this is not the Win9x kernel era, the 'Windows crashes all the time' myth crap needs to stop once and for all...

Chill. Do you work on the Windows development team or do you work in PR?

Anyways, the thread's OP is saying Windows crashes ~10% of the time, which is fairly accurate, actually. Windows 9x crashed at least 30-50% of the time. No, I'm not exaggerating.

I've seen many, many XP and 200x Server crashes (I'm a sysadmin), and probably only 25% of those were due to hardware.

By comparison, I've seen Linux and HP-UX, Solaris and AIX servers with uptimes measured in years.

So I'd say you probably have no idea what you're talking about.