Linked by David Adams on Sun 5th Oct 2008 02:58 UTC
Windows XP just refuses to die. Have you ever notice that in movies they hit the bad guy just hard enough to stun him, then go about their business with their back turned to him while he slowly gets up and surprises them by attacking again? In this allegory, Microsoft management is the cute couple and XP is the villain: "Microsoft's deadline for allowing OEMs to sell PCs with systems that are "downgraded" from Windows Vista to XP is still a moving target. Initially planned to expire on June 30 of this year, Microsoft at first granted an extension to July 31. However, OEMs are still selling the downgrade option (often for a premium) and, according to new reports, the deadline apparently has been officially extended for six more months to January 31, 2009. The information is based on one leaked email sent to an OEM."
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RE[5]: run XP on Vista
by google_ninja on Sun 5th Oct 2008 15:14
in reply to "RE[4]: run XP on Vista"
Member since:2006-02-05
What I always tell people is wait till you buy a new machine. It isn't worth upgrading an old machine to the point where it will run it, you may as well wait till you are ready for something completely new. If you buy from a major vendor, chances are the oem version will barely cost you anything too.
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2005-07-06
And that always so far has been the problem with Vista, for people without top of the line hardware at the time when they first bought it.
Vista almost certainly needs them to do some upgrading and that costs money, plus Vista costs money, yet on a small percentage of people see any real benefits moving from XP that they have already paid for to Vista.