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What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sell-your-soul-to-the-devil dept.

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."

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  1. Does anyone remember by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Interesting

    when Windows 95 first came out. Microsoft were so confident that users would enjoy it they even included the ability to roll back to Windows 3.1

    I wonder why they didn't include this option with Windows Vista...

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  2. Re:How is this difficult? by KillerBob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One more thing... you can also choose that option on the XPS line of gaming systems.

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  3. Re:That's Microsoft for you by Blue+Stone · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The fact that an OEM XP CD is marked 'not for resale' doesn't mean anything - as should have been proved by a recent court decision regarding music promo CDs, where the judge ruled that they were a gift and no longer the property of the record companies - who consequently had NO SAY over what was done with them (short of copyright laws and duplication).

    If that's the case for gifts, where you've paid money for something, the case for right of resale would be even stronger.

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