What Does It Take to Get a PC With XP?
I won't waste time rehashing the argument over whether Windows Vista is any good. The fact remains that lots of people prefer Windows XP, and they'll go to great lengths to get it.
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Hi, I just thought I would
Hi,I just thought I would comment that just because people will go to any lengths to obtain XP over Vista does not prove that Vista is not better than XP. People are lazy, they just want to type, print, surf and email with the least effort possible. Learning to use a new operating system is of no interest to the majority of PC users. The deluge of Mac users that go on line and publically rubbish Microsoft products any way they can doesn't help. There is no more of a public outcry about Vista than there was when XP was first released. Unlike with XP, Microsoft have quickly solved nearly all the issues of the first release of Vista. 18 months after first release I have an operating systems that do everything I ask of them, are 99.9% stable and work with almost every PC product on the market.
The only issue I have with Microsoft would be the complete disaster they made of managing the product development. The product should have been at least 3 years further advanced that it is. Having said that they did eventually succeed in releasing a product that one day people will agree is a success. You don't agree with me; well just wait until Windows 7 is released, everyone will be saying how crap it is and how everyone is downgrading to Vista.
Gateway may not offer XP on
Gateway may not offer XP on their consumer line but MPC(old Gateway business line) does offer it on just about
any of their business configurations. No fee, pre-installed
and you get the CD. They'll continue this until sometime
mid 2009.