Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 23:19 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
While I can personally attest for the gains Microsoft made when it comes to Windows Vista's performance between its release-to-manufacture November 2006 and now, there is no denying the fact that Vista simply isn't made for running on lower-specced computers. In addition, while Vista brings interesting new features and massive overhauls of many subsystems, a lot of people simply don't like it. Sadly for them, Windows XP is going out-of-sale 30 June. However, there are plenty of loopholes - PC World listed them.
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2007-10-26
Yes I have a great problem with this. I want to buy a new computer sometime before Christmas. I have several games that only run on XP. They are copy protected and thus will neither work under WINE or Vista. So I want to get XP for this machine. However if I cannot activate XP on the machine I will be stuffed. This will lead me to the dilemma of not playing the products I paid good money for or doing something illegal in order to get them to work.
As far as I can see I will need to either crack the games, or break XP's activation scheme.