Dell is again offering Windows XP as a choice over Vista on their Systems

by What-A-Coincidence 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  What-A-Coincidence

  From one of my yahoo groups:

  FYI:
  
  Dell is again offering Windows XP as a choice over Vista on their systems, due to a plea from over 10,000 customers on Dell's "Idea Storm" website.
  
  Interesting response from Microsoft, or denial?
  
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  The company said it will immediately offer XP again an option for four
  models of its Inspiron notebooks and two models of its Dimension desktop
  PCs.
  
  This comes just weeks after Dell said it is also planning to offer PCs
  with Linux, a free operating system that competes with Windows.
  
  "This is really odd," said Michael Silver, research vice president at
  Gartner. "On new PCs, consumers usually do want the latest and greatest."
  
  Microsoft countered that Dell's move was in response to a "small
  minority of customers" with a "specific request." Michael Burk, a
  product manager for Microsoft's Windows Client group, said in an
  e-mailed statement, "The vast majority of consumers want the latest and
  greatest technology, and that includes Windows Vista."
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  I have to say that the "minority" seems to reflect a growing customer
  base that just wants a simple, working OS, the product manager, IMHO
  underestimates the intelligence, and more importantly, needs of it's
  customers.
  
  If Vista simply worked, with minor difficulties and small quirks,
  instead of customers having to spend all their time downloading drivers
  and spending hard earned cash on hardware and software upgrades, if it
  was a decent product, they would not be hearing this.
  
  The bad press accumulating about Vista reminds me of Windows ME.
  
  Entire article:
  http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/news/gizmos/story.html?id=fbc529a0-f717-4819-885b-14799565c191&k=28728
  
  Sam Lacey
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  VM44

  Drivers are a problem with Windows Vista. After upgrading to Vista, many people are finding that their computers do not work as they used to. Many times it is because the drivers for the existing installed hardware are incompatible with Windows Vista, and so things that used to work fine with XP don't work well or at all with Vista! And for many products it turns out there are no Vista drivers!!!!

  This means a person either has to buy new hardware, or uninstall Vista and go back to using XP.

  This problem is affecting not just a few people as Microsoft claims.

  It will be a very long time before I even think of using Vista.

  --VM44
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  ButtLight

  I ordered a new computer.........not from dell, but from a company here in my town that builds them. I told them to put xp, NOT vista on it.....I hope they remembered
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  Finally-Free

  As our branch of the government's IT director recently said to me, "Microsoft's not giving us a choice. Soon we'll be forced to migrate to Linux and Openoffice."

  This is the same person who staunchly resisted my suggestions to test Linux in our environment when I first came here 6 years ago.

  Microsoft is proving to be it's own worst enemy.

  W
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  daystar

  I'm glad Dell is doing this.

  I can recall updating from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. Oh, how I hated it! Everyone bitched about Windows 95 at the beginning. Everyone talked about going back to 3.1, or even DOS.

  This happens to one degree or another every time MS puts out a major upgrade to the OS.

  Give it time to cool. Give the hardware manufacturers time to play catch up (though I'm surprised at the excessive lack of drivers I'm hearing about.)

  My general rule of thumb, ever since the DOS 6.0 Doublespace fiasco in March of 1993, is to wait at least six months or maybe as long as a year before upgrading to the next Windows OS. This will allow the OS to "settle into" the marketplace and for other vendors to get up to speed.

  Yes, it sucks, but this is how it's been with MS for-ev-er.

  edit: Also, if you don't need to upgrade, why do it? If I bought a brand new OEM PC today, I'd format the sucker and put XP on it, wait for fixes, etc. and then, if I just felt like it, upgrade at that time.
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  SirNose586

  This happens to one degree or another every time MS puts out a major upgrade to the OS.

  Give it time to cool. Give the hardware manufacturers time to play catch up (though I'm surprised at the excessive lack of drivers I'm hearing about.)

  Very true. I saw a Vista demo and was like...why the hell would I pay for this flashy, yet slow OS? Not that XP is a great alternative...its just that Micro$oft sucks.
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  greendawn

  Those are the usual teething problem of a new operating system. It's wiser not to buy the new os until the problems get resolved with time. As they say "new technology is no good until it becomes old technology." Let others get into the trouble of smoothing the way.
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  XJW4EVR

  I hope that Toshiba will follow suit. I bought a new laptop last month, and it came with Vista. I want to slit my wrists!
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  What-A-Coincidence

  I sold a system to a customer with Vista...crap...I should have loaded it with XP. It has 1GB of Ram and 120GB of HD and a decent processor. Slow as molasses!!! CRAP!!!
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  Finally-Free

  why the hell would I pay for this flashy, yet slow OS?

  Buying a slow but flashy operating system will make you feel the need to buy faster hardware. Once your system is fast, you will upgrade to even more bloatware which will slow your system down to a crawl again. And the cycle will continue as it always has. The end result? Microsoft continues to get richer while the rest of us poor slobs continue to spend big bucks. Our documents are not typed any more quickly or accurately. Our emails reach their destinations in the same (or more) amount of time, our end users are more technically incognizant than ever before, and this is all a good thing. If Microsoft and other software and hardware vendors didn't keep creating this artificial need guys like me would be out of work.

  Heaven forbid we should go back to the days when we could create wordperfect 6.0 documents on windows 3.1, and then email them as attachments using compuserve - and do so just as quickly and efficiently as we can today! We've had some technical improvements over the years, but overall I think Microsoft's dominance has stifled innovation.

  W