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MS Reportedly Adds 6 Months of Vista Downgrade

Posted by kdawson on from the charting-a-course-to-windows-7 dept.

LiteralKa sends in a poorly sourced Reg story claiming that Microsoft has granted OEMs six more months to sell PCs using Windows Vista with the support to downgrade to Windows XP. OEMs can now offer such arrangements until July 31, 2009 — the previous deadline was January 31, 2009. The article claims as source "a Reg reader" without further details. Neither Microsoft nor any OEM has confirmed the rumor, and only a few scattered bloggers have picked it up.

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  1. Front Page? by donaggie03 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is a poorly sourced, unconfirmed story from the Reg posted on the front page? VERY slow news day?

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  2. Well well by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Neither Microsoft nor any OEM has confirmed the rumor, and only a few scattered bloggers have picked it up."

    Including Slashdot.

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  3. Re:Desktop Operation System Evolution by miffo.swe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "why does the evolution of desktop operating systems like Windows go slower now than a decade ago?"

    In short, because Microsoft succeeded in killing platform independant applications.

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  4. Is that you, Mr. Ballmer? by mangu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've heard a lot of "It won't run on my hardware" and "It won't run our winfax95" but c'mon...It's 2008.

    Do you think it makes sense to upgrade the hardware without getting any additional functionality?

    Just to show a different point of view, I have recently bought a Linux eeePC-900 and am loving it. It has more or less the same capability as a typical notebook of a few years ago: 900 MHz CPU, 20 GB storage, 1 MB RAM, yet it weighs less than one kilogram. That's what I consider TRUE progress. I have the same functionality I had before, but with a big gain in portability.

    If you have to upgrade your hardware just to keep the same functionality, without any significant gain, then why do it? Why not keep the same old hardware and software you had before?

  5. Re:Vista Home by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one with any sense (and who doesn't work for Microsoft) claims Vista is a "must-have" upgrade, though. It's basically a replacement for XP with a few extra bells and whistles... not worth upgrading if you have XP, but if you're building a new machine, there's no reason to avoid it.

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