Dell.com offers Windows XP downgrade as “bonus”
July 3rd, 2008 -
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 Pro after buying Vista. Gamers can also access the “bonus downgrade” for a fee of between $20 and $50. [Story from Internet News] As Will Smith remarks on the blog: shouldn’t Dell offer consumers what they are asking for, the ability to keep using what they perceive as a “superior product” – XP? Both Dell and Microsoft are playing a dangerous game by ignoring this level of consumer dissatisfaction. …
Recommending contacts in a social network – patent claim
June 30th, 2008 -
Some scientists at Microsoft have applied to patent a method of recommending contacts in a social network. For social networking nerds it is worth looking at the claims and the prior art responses. Social networking is now close enough to the mainstream of web activity for this patent claim to represent a serious business opportunity. …
Can 153,000 users save XP?
April 16th, 2008 -
XP – 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 can sign …
Dell’s users vote – for XP
April 23rd, 2007 -
Dell’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 business users earlier …
Search associated sites
October 23rd, 2006 -
Microsoft’s Live Search team have come up with a really cool piece of code (a search macro, in their terminology) which allows you to search a sub-group of sites all of whom are linked from a particular site. (A similar piece of code already allows you to track sites that link to a particular site) …
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