Microsoft has struggled to convince users of Vista’s superiority to XP. And there continues to be a demand for the old OS. As of 1st July Windows XP is officially no longer being shipped by PC suppliers, but Dell have announced on their small business blog an ingenious way of downgrading to XP [...]
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Can 153,000 users save XP?
April 16th, 2008 — MarkXP – that stable, reliable operating system we have pretty much gotten used to – is going to be killed off in 73 days time, on 30th June. Windows users will then only have the choice of “upgrading” to Vista, an OS which has proved troublesome for pretty much all its users. You [...]
Dell’s users vote – for XP
April 23rd, 2007 — MarkDell’s users have been thronging their new feedback site IdeaStorm demanding that Dell retain Windows XP as an option on new computers. They feel that Vista is a “young operating system with its own problems”. The post that requests XP be retained has received 13,328 endorsements. Dell offered to retain XP for [...]