Re: progress in operating systems

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:25:50 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34015/140/

Order the downgrade disk now!


John


When I bought my new ThinkPad (about a month ago), it was offered WITH
XP.


And when I buy a new desktop this week it will either have XP on it or I will not buy it. IOW it needs to come pre-downgraded.

What really blew my mind: One company (might be Dell) offers "crud removal service" on some machines. You can have Outlook and other non-essentials removed. For a fee of two bucks a pop! Now that's a new business model, offer something with lots of gizmos and then when customers don't want the gizmos charge them for removal. Makes me somewhat grumpy but I'll probably still buy there, cause I need XP.

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Regards, Joerg

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