Posted on 07/01/2009 6:33:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I have a computer with Windows Vista but prefer Windows XP. Who sells new computers with XP? I think such vendors must exist, because my company still uses XP and presumably buys computers for new employees.
Pre-order Windows 7 at a discount and put up with Vista for a couple of more months.
One of the problems with Vista is that it came with a bunch of computer dummy features turned on that really reduce performance. See below for tweaks
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm
Windows 7 is going to be the best of the best operating systems. Really stable and user/hardware friendly.
Good luck finding new computers with XP already installed. Microsoft stopped support on XP in April of this year. (Extended support - which you have to pay for - is available until next year I believe.)
Walmart, emachine 299.00, I bought last year this time, my work can’t handle Vista.
Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software.
- From the Microsoft salesmen that always show up in these thread
Most any computer vender has two software options - Home and Business.
Home is Vista
Business will be XP.
Getting the Business package will not get you the teenager bells and whistles, just a good, working platform.
“Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Note Microsoft is now beta testing Windows 7, Vista's replacement. Supposed to become available by fall. I think Vista might be another Windows ME.
Read later.
You could also embrace the ‘Darkside’,
either use bit torrent or binary newsgroups, there are versions of XP which can use auto-update without a problem and do not require registration.
You really have 2 excellent choices - buy a tricked out Vista machine and get the free Windows 7 download from Microsoft and run it. You will be AMAZED! Or you can wait 3 months till Windows 7 units come flying out. 7 is Wonderful!
- From the Microsoft salesmen that always show up in these thread
So are you refuting the charge that you're too stupid to install Vista? Or are you agreeing with the "Microsoft salesmen"?
Microsoft has actually banned them from offering new machines with XP installed (but they have come up with a faux-XP, a version of Vista with the look and feel of XP, for commercial customers who bitch and moan enough)
I have been running vista for over a year now without any issues whatsoever, except that a coupla of my older printers would not work with it....and a few programs, but they were older too
BTTT
Vista is really wonderful you are just too stupid to realize it and it’s your fault for not wanting to spend hours/days upgrading your hardware/software
^^^
Truer words and all that. I used Microsoft for 20 years in my business; Vista finally cured me. Couldn’t run a new printer or ANY program that didn’t come installed.
Gave the piece of c**p to our son and he has a smoking Unix machine now. We switched to Macs. Should have done it years ago.
Do you have a licensed copy of Windows XP?
If so you can run it on a new PC (preferrably one with Win 7).
You can use Virtual Machine to run older versions of Windows on it - even Win98
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
It needs XP emulation to make consumers happy. They only are offering it on the high end - it should be on all versions.
Of course you can still buy a copy of XP just look on pricewatch. com or Newegg.com.
Of course you can still buy a copy of XP just look on pricewatch. com or Newegg.com.
Just bought a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, and I had a choice of which OS I wanted.
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