Dell snubs Vista

chrisfixit — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:22:46 +0000

Dell has had a not-too-subtle dig at Microsoft by continuing to offer XP Professional as the pre-installed operating system on its new computers, despite yesterday’s supposed cut-off date for XP sales.

As a sop to the millions of people who have shunned Vista and prefer XP, Microsoft decided to allow manufacturers to offer XP as a ‘downgrade right’ – Dell have rebadged this and are offering Vista as a ‘Bonus Disk’, implying (quite correctly) that it doesn’t see XP as a downgrade at all.

In fact, Dell’s blog is fullsome in its praise of XP and calls Vista ‘its harshly debated successor’.

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Dell to keep XP

chrisfixit — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:09:38 +0000

As you may know Microsoft is to stop selling Windows XP at the end of June, but Dell is going to exploit a loophole in Microsoft’s licensing which will allow it to ‘downgrade’ Vista installations on new machines to XP Professional.

Other manufacturers may follow, and Microsoft is said to be quite happy with this situation as the sales will still count as Vista sales, boosting the poor figures of the product.

Microsoft is still under intense pressure to extend the shelf-life of XP past its current June deadline.

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