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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Member since:2007-02-17
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Actually, yes. If you read what I posted, I was talking about what would be of immense benefit to NEC's customers. Not NEC's suppliers.
After all, it is NEC's customers to whom this offer is being made, and NEC themselves say they cannot continue the offer past June.
NEC could easily support their customers past June by offering them an upgrade to Ubuntu instead.
NEC's competitior mentioned in the article, Dell, seems to have a far better understanding than NEC does.
Edited 2008-02-06 01:11 UTC
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Member since:2005-08-11
if NECs customers want XP or need XP, offering them Linux doesn't help them at all. If they want Linux, and need Linux, they can put Linux on the machine themselves.
"NEC could easily support their customers past June by offering them an upgrade to Ubuntu instead. "
XP is not going to just become unsupported in June. You just will not be able to get OEM or Retail copies. System Builders aka Dell/NEC/HP what have you, will be able to get XP until Jan 31 2009, and XP will get security updates after that until 2014.
See here:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=window...
and here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/servicepacks.mspx
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