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What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP?
An anonymous reader writes "Christopher Null tried to buy a computer with Windows XP pre-installed on it from the United States' nine biggest PC makers. His findings: You can get one, but be prepared to fib."
An Internet connection.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Hi. We were talking about how to get Windows XP, not your weekend plans.
Thanks.
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How much easier could it get?!
1) Obtain ancient boxen (at some cost)
2)Obtain XP >=SP2 (somehow...)
3) Install yourself
4) ?????
5) NO PROFIT!!!!! FAIL!!!!
Well... we're happy for you? And impressed with your ability to brag about what you're able to purchase for your work?
In answer to your question, it's difficult because we're not you and are, in fact, normal home users.
I'm pretty sure that shouldn't have needed explaining...
You: Hey Microsoft, can I give you money for your product?
Microsoft: No.
You: Please..?
And it's, uh, fine.
Uhmmm.....I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to say things like that around here.
Well, when I'm at a bar, the bartender usually keeps on bringing me more beer when he sees my glass is almost empty until I say "when". I call it "opt out". The system works.
What?
Must be hell. Does he have a brother named Bobby Tables?
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Same here, regarding switching to Vista. I work for the City of NY, and not one agency in the city is making the switch. I still think it's crap that MS would rather sell the giant pile of shit that is Vista to their end users. Now people are going to get Vista, see what a giant turd it is and look for an alterna-- You know what...SELL MORE VISTA! YAY VISTA! VIVA VISTA!
If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
Yeah but do you want 4 grocery sales guys sitting in your kitchen watching you drink milk? ;-)
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
I can connect to the *cough* neighbours AP within 5 seconds from any state.
Even Alaska? That must be some router!
Only someone at our company ordered an XPS that has no equivalent XP drivers. I really didn't want to let them get Vista, but they were wanting something flashy to show off at presentations -.- They now want to install XP on the laptop but tough shit, I warned them in the first place, and if there are no drivers available, then the system may be pretty unusable in XP. There perhaps are hacked XP drivers or even actual XP drivers available now though.. is that a ray of light at the end of the tunnel?
which is totally what she said
But you do have to pay extra for it, which is worse than having to lie to get it.
Only if your soul has no value.
Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
Your not really well with grammar, much less anything.
Please refrain from using 'we' when referring to yourself - unless you are perhaps royalty or an editor, then it is of course your perogative.
Hey, pr'aps he's got a tapeworm!
I was probably supposed to end that sentence with "you insensitive clod".
I heard that linux was still pretty easy to get.
Drinking milk is fine. Montoring toilet paper usage is another matter completely.
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> Your not really well with grammar, much less anything.
"Your"??? What was that about grammar again?
When 1person suffers from a delusion,it is called insanity.When many people suffer from a delusion,it is called religion
souls are a fiat currency - they have value so long as everyone *believes*.
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
stop replying with facts to morons.
it makes them look stupid and we can't have that in today's modern world.
stop replying with facts to morons. it makes them look stupid and we can't have that in today's modern world.
Why not, if they look stupid enough they may get elected to public office so you're doing them a favor.
These come with ... a Vista license and disk to upgrade to Vista, should you ever want to.
And for some odd reason, the disk is wrapped in cloth, that when unfolded turns out to be a straitjacket bearing a warning label: You'll be needing this when *they* come to pick you up. And what appeared to be a EULA was actually some sort of release form...
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
I see, so 1 soul = 1 USD ?
Wait, you're worried about the eternal ramifications of telling a mistruth... TO A SALESMAN?
Modding Trolls +1 inciteful since 1999
Maxwell, I'm not sure what you were looking at, but the only way I could find on the Dell website to get XP on one of their laptops is to pay for Vista Ultimate and then downgrade. The person who submitted this article didn't have an Optiplex in mind, as far as I can tell.
Maybe I'm just missing the magic screen where they make it easy to get XP Pro instead of the MS Vista Ultimate Sucker Edition, but it does in fact seem that Dell has not made it a simple choice.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's as if suddenly XP is getting the "Desktop Linux" treatement...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
piratebay. :-)
Probably because it is easier to do that than get a wireless nic driver to work with a kernel change.