Users force Dell to resurrect XP

Excellent news here for those who don’t want Windows Vista installed when they buy a new PC from Dell.

Regardless of when Microsoft want to retire Windows XP, many of us are very happy with it. In my experience, it’s always been stable - much more so than Windows 95, 98 or Me. Why would we want to pay money to change something that works just fine?

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7 Responses to “Users force Dell to resurrect XP”

1
blueyes
April 26th, 2007 16:15

I’ve always said that, if it works why do you want to upgrade even though there might be a few new tweaks or it looks prettier?

Great news that Dell will be doing that as well because I sure as heck don’t want to use Vista.
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Baxter Tocher
April 27th, 2007 08:40

I couldn’t agree more, blueyes. I bought this PC a couple of months ago, and deliberately chose Windows XP rather than Vista.

Besides, if you want pretty, there’s a big choice of window managers available for Linux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager

It’s also easy to get Linux to look like Vista (if that’s what the user wants, of course!).
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goldcoaster
April 29th, 2007 07:52

Don’t knock Vista until you have it installed and tried out. It is a lot more than what you suggest - a visual upgrade to linux or XP.

It is good Dell is offering XP still. Do you know if it cheaper than the same system with Vista?
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Baxter Tocher
April 29th, 2007 09:43

Running Stardock’s Object Desktop, including the lovely WindowBlinds, on Windows XP is a pleasant enough experience for me:

http://www.stardock.com/

I’m not sure what Dell are charging for their XP installs. What I can tell you, though, is that I could have got some version of Vista (I’m not sure which) for free when I bought this PC, and I paid extra to get XP Professional instead. But I knew what I wanted
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blueyes
April 30th, 2007 17:27

You are kidding, you paid extra for XP? That’s insane, gimme Vista then, I’ll wipe it clean myself and install XP.
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Baxter Tocher
April 30th, 2007 17:33

blueyes, I didn’t have XP Professional available to install (I did have XP Home from my last PC, but I wanted to move up from that).
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Syaf The Geek
May 6th, 2007 16:29

Well I won’t use Vista just they told us to do so. Besides I still got some issues with XP. Vista have tons of it. Go figure.

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