Re: Microsoft making vendors remove drivers

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Incidentally, MS is still back pedalling on killing off Vista.
Dell no longer offers only XP on their products. However,
they offer something called "transition", where XP is pre-installed,
but a Vista SP1 license and CD is included for eventual "upgrade".
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/software/business/xp_smb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
I haven't checked if the price was jacked up to include both licenses.

You're over 24 hours behind Slashdot.
"$50 to Get XP On a New Dell"
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/18/1441230&threshold=5&mode=nested
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