Retro OS
Dell Computer, the 2nd largest PC seller in the world, resurrected XP last month.
After Windows Vista was released in January of this year, the computer manufacturer, like most, started phasing out Windows XP as an OS option on new systems. Until their customers begged them to bring it back.
Read the BBC News article here.
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I can talk about this one from personal experience. We recently bought another version of XP after my husband's new computer (with Vista) wouldn't play nice with, well, practically anything. Online video wouldn't play. Ok, some of it may work--All I know is we had to watch the episode of "LOST" that we missed while the satellite down on my laptop because the player on ABC.com doesn't work with Vista. My husband is a gamer and had tons of problems getting his enhanced audio/video to work right with Vista.
I'm sure there was more, but I tuned out the list of reasons why I needed to go spend another $200+ on a different OS for his new computer while he was just winding up.
The thing that upsets me is that MS issued an apparently flawed product (TWO service packs in the works before it hit the shelves? Anyone else think they should have, I dunno, WAITED til it worked right?) and is, par for the course, going to make us take it. After January 2008 Microsoft will no longer sell new Windows XP licenses to manufacturers.
So go get a spare copy or two now - if you read Tom's recent tech tip on Vista you'll see that XP is likely to be supported by third parties long after Microsoft stops selling it.
After Windows Vista was released in January of this year, the computer manufacturer, like most, started phasing out Windows XP as an OS option on new systems. Until their customers begged them to bring it back.
Read the BBC News article here.
~~~
I can talk about this one from personal experience. We recently bought another version of XP after my husband's new computer (with Vista) wouldn't play nice with, well, practically anything. Online video wouldn't play. Ok, some of it may work--All I know is we had to watch the episode of "LOST" that we missed while the satellite down on my laptop because the player on ABC.com doesn't work with Vista. My husband is a gamer and had tons of problems getting his enhanced audio/video to work right with Vista.
I'm sure there was more, but I tuned out the list of reasons why I needed to go spend another $200+ on a different OS for his new computer while he was just winding up.
The thing that upsets me is that MS issued an apparently flawed product (TWO service packs in the works before it hit the shelves? Anyone else think they should have, I dunno, WAITED til it worked right?) and is, par for the course, going to make us take it. After January 2008 Microsoft will no longer sell new Windows XP licenses to manufacturers.
So go get a spare copy or two now - if you read Tom's recent tech tip on Vista you'll see that XP is likely to be supported by third parties long after Microsoft stops selling it.
posted by Dy at 10:22 AM
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