Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Art Alexion]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 4:21:08 pm Joel Oliver wrote:
> It's just going to prove the point that Windows Vista is selling well,
> Ubuntu preinstalled is a flop...   Isn't this what they really want to
> do

Along these lines, like most businesses using Windows, we have decided to stay 
with XP and never use Vista.  Well, officially, you can't buy XP anymore, and 
you must buy Vista.  But we buy PCs from Dell with XP pre-installed everyday. 
How?

Certain Vista licenses (the more expensive ones) come with "downgrade" rights 
to XP.  So when we buy an XP box, we are really buying a Vista box with the 
downgrade option pre-installed.  This makes it (1) more expensive to buy XP, 
and (2) makes it appear that Vista is selling more than it is actually being 
used.


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