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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Feb 2008 22:39 UTC

The Japanese computer supplier NEC has officially launched a product to let network administrators downgrade machines running Windows Vista to XP. The OEM first made the product, NEC FlexLoad, available to customers on 25 January. However, the product was officially launched on Tuesday. Customers with a Vista licence can purchase the two-DVD pack for GBP 7, according to David Newbould, NEC UK's product marketing manager. The first DVD sets up a partition on the hard drive and installs core XP files and drivers, while the second DVD installs the remaining XP files in the partition, said Newbould. NEC recommends that customers burn a Vista recovery CD before installing the XP partition.

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RE[6]: Downgrade?

by lemur2 on Wed 6th Feb 2008 02:48 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Downgrade?"

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I dont think so, I have yet to find a single piece of software that doesn't work. Im not saying that there isn't software that doesn't work, but most of it is hype because its popular to hate MS. Yeah, I think I made my opinion known on that Linux has better game compatibility than windows.. In short, its utter b.s. Hell, none of the games listed on the article you posted work in linux either

Someone decides to pick 5 obscure dos games and complains that they dont work in vista.. well I wonder why? Name one game made for windows xp that works on linux but not windows vista (From this decade, not some 16 bit windows 3.1 game, or dos game that just barely works in xp). One. Name it.

Whoa! I did put a smiley in there. I wasn't being serious.

If you really want to play games like that, however, I do have an alternative question for you. Name one game made for Vista (and directx 10) that works on XP. One. Name it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10

Edited 2008-02-06 02:50 UTC

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