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Old 01-08-08, 12:09 PM   #1
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Default Majority Of New PCs Ship Without Windows Vista, Gates (Unintentionally) Reveals

Hahahahaha!!! :rotfl:

http://www.informationweek.com/story...leID=205210375

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PS. If you don't want to read the article, new PC's account for 39% Vista, and over 60% XP still.
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Old 01-08-08, 08:11 PM   #2
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Is anyone realy surprised????:hmm:
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Old 01-08-08, 08:19 PM   #3
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Well, I'll be buying a new machine next month. And I certainly am apprehensive about Vista. I'm hoping that I can purchase my new machine from Dell with the XP option still available. I haven't checked recently. If not, I may have to build my machine myself. Oh well, I enjoyed that last time I did it.
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Old 01-08-08, 08:58 PM   #4
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Well the website still shows XP availability for some of the machines only. Not everything can be purchased with the XP option by what's showing on the website. Perhaps if you ordered, you could convince them to sell anything with XP.
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Old 01-08-08, 10:00 PM   #5
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I dont find that all suprising either. Truth is i at times find Vista annoying luckily i got a dual install of xp and V, so i can just reboot to xp when i've had it with vista.

MS biggest mistake although there is software out there such as Vlite, is they should of put out a lite version dont know if Vista home edtion is the lite version?. Vista without the eye candy just the engine and plain old interface look and preinstalled on these OEM PCs with an option to upgrade to eye candy look with a type of service pk update so if they find vista to slow they can at least uninstall the pack - but problem is they're selling new PC's with Vista on and only 512 ram or 1gig which aint enough you need 2gigs or better to run vista well.

A newbie comes along buys a brand new PC with vista goes for the cheapest which usually comes with 512ram few weeks later hes in a straight jacket

Meanwihile Bill Gates sits at home counting his millions...
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Old 01-08-08, 11:42 PM   #6
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I've been shopping for a new gaming laptop lately (Yes, I realize it's not the best of plan. Try shipping out with a tower and monitor.), and from what I've seen, both Alienware and Dell have XP options (Which I'm going for), while HP only offers Vista, from what I've seen.

Out-of-the-box computers, from Best Buys, Futureshop and the like, seem to ship with Vista these days.

Everybody has the "XXX recommends Windows Vista" thing on the website, but... Not interested.

For anybody interested... I'm leaning toward Dell right now. Alienware doesn't seem to offer the biggest processors on laptops. The HP website pissed me off within seconds, for some reason.
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