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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
Note, the official downgrade is only available for Vista Business or Vista
Ultimate. "Tony Harding" wrote in message ... http://www.dell.com/content/topics/g...494&lid=715454 |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:13:25 -0400, Tony Harding
wrote: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/g...494&lid=715454 It would be refreshing to read an article that told the blunt truth: "We at Dell acknowledge that there is little if anything to gain from going with Vista, so we are offering the XP downgrade option. We have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, we would like to sell you more hardware which helps our bottom line. On the other hand, it's so hard for us to effectively market Vista and keep a straight face, because Vista offers very little if anything in new useful features. If we told you what we really think we'd recommend that businesses and individual consumers skip Vista and cross their fingers that Windows 7 will be a worthy upgrade. That's a possibility, but with Ballmer in charge it's not likely. The biggest advantage of marketing Vista here at Dell is that it might increase profits due to higher hardware requirements, something that Michael Dell is interested in because he has his eyes on a villa in the South of France. If Dell can sell more hardware, and after we lay off 10,000 more workers, he might be able to purchase that family vacation home" |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:35:18 -0400, "HDRDTD"
wrote: Note, the official downgrade is only available for Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. Yes -- leaving Vista Home Premium users in the dust. |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you're ready to upgrade.
Hi!
Yes -- leaving Vista Home Premium users in the dust. ....which is surprising, considering that many home PC users I've talked to want to have XP. I've had no problem keeping myself busy doing these "upgrades" and people will (sometimes reluctantly) pay for XP licenses... William |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
If you're auditioning for a job in public relations, you just lost out.
Definitely not the writings of a well-versed spin doctor. If you are auditioning to be part of some legislative or NGO team that wants truth in advertising, you just won. But we have to vet what you have written. Who are your sources telling you that Michael Dell wants a villa in the south of France, and are they reliable? Or are they simply the usual run-of-the-mill bloggers and rumor mongers? ... Ben Myers On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:45:56 -0500, journey wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:13:25 -0400, Tony Harding wrote: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/g...494&lid=715454 It would be refreshing to read an article that told the blunt truth: "We at Dell acknowledge that there is little if anything to gain from going with Vista, so we are offering the XP downgrade option. We have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, we would like to sell you more hardware which helps our bottom line. On the other hand, it's so hard for us to effectively market Vista and keep a straight face, because Vista offers very little if anything in new useful features. If we told you what we really think we'd recommend that businesses and individual consumers skip Vista and cross their fingers that Windows 7 will be a worthy upgrade. That's a possibility, but with Ballmer in charge it's not likely. The biggest advantage of marketing Vista here at Dell is that it might increase profits due to higher hardware requirements, something that Michael Dell is interested in because he has his eyes on a villa in the South of France. If Dell can sell more hardware, and after we lay off 10,000 more workers, he might be able to purchase that family vacation home" |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you're ready to upgrade.
"Ben Myers" wrote in message news If you're auditioning for a job in public relations, you just lost out. Definitely not the writings of a well-versed spin doctor. If you are auditioning to be part of some legislative or NGO team that wants truth in advertising, you just won. But we have to vet what you have written. Who are your sources telling you that Michael Dell wants a villa in the south of France, and are they reliable? Or are they simply the usual run-of-the-mill bloggers and rumor mongers? ... Ben Myers It's "lipstick on a pig" to be sure. But to be fair, Dell was one of the first - if not THE first - to offer the "XP downgrade" option and to make it public. Other OEMs quickly followed soon after. |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:29:43 -0400, Ben Myers
wrote: If you're auditioning for a job in public relations, you just lost out. Definitely not the writings of a well-versed spin doctor. If you are auditioning to be part of some legislative or NGO team that wants truth in advertising, you just won. But we have to vet what you have written. Who are your sources telling you that Michael Dell wants a villa in the south of France, and are they reliable? Or are they simply the usual run-of-the-mill bloggers and rumor mongers? ... Ben Myers I'm guilty -- run of the mill rumor monger :-) |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you're ready to upgrade.
S.Lewis wrote:
"Ben Myers" wrote in message news If you're auditioning for a job in public relations, you just lost out. Definitely not the writings of a well-versed spin doctor. If you are auditioning to be part of some legislative or NGO team that wants truth in advertising, you just won. But we have to vet what you have written. Who are your sources telling you that Michael Dell wants a villa in the south of France, and are they reliable? Or are they simply the usual run-of-the-mill bloggers and rumor mongers? ... Ben Myers It's "lipstick on a pig" to be sure. But to be fair, Dell was one of the first - if not THE first - to offer the "XP downgrade" option and to make it public. Other OEMs quickly followed soon after. Lenovo was the first place I encountered it (Aug or Sept, '07, IIRC) |
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You can purchase Windows Vista® today but keep using Windows® XP until you’re ready to upgrade.
Sheesh! You blew that one, too! Where is your well-refined sense of
obfuscation and cover-up, with stonewalling refusal to reveal your sources? .... Ben Myers On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:38:35 -0500, journey wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:29:43 -0400, Ben Myers wrote: If you're auditioning for a job in public relations, you just lost out. Definitely not the writings of a well-versed spin doctor. If you are auditioning to be part of some legislative or NGO team that wants truth in advertising, you just won. But we have to vet what you have written. Who are your sources telling you that Michael Dell wants a villa in the south of France, and are they reliable? Or are they simply the usual run-of-the-mill bloggers and rumor mongers? ... Ben Myers I'm guilty -- run of the mill rumor monger :-) |
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