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Loopholes keep Windows XP alive |
jack89
Date:
2008-04-28
Time: 19:45:45
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PC makers are finding ways to keep selling
Windows XP despite Microsoft efforts to
remove it from sale.
Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes
in Microsoft's licensing terms to extend the
operating system beyond a 30 June end of life
date.
XP is being phased out in favour of Windows
Vista which has, so far, got a lukewarm
welcome from many firms.
The news comes as Microsoft boss Steve
Ballmer hints that XP could live longer if
enough customers demand it.
Long life
Dell is using a clause in the conditions for
Windows Vista which lets it provide XP under
the terms of a "downgrade license" for the
Business and Ultimate versions of the new
operating system.
This means that Dell can install Windows XP
Professional for free on some machines in its
Latitude, OptiPlex, and Precision machines.
In the main these deals are meant for
business customers.
For consumers and small firms Dell will, for
a fee, install XP Pro on Vostro and XPS
gaming machines.
HP is also using the "downgrade" option to
keep selling XP with some models until 30
July 2009.
In all these cases a PC is logged as a Vista
sale and, in effect, is being sold with an
unused option to upgrade to the newer
operating system.
With some machines Lenovo is installing Vista
but including a XP recovery disk so owners
can roll back to the older software.
The news comes only days after Microsoft
reported its third quarter results down 11%
largely due to a fall in sales in its Windows
software division.
Despite this Microsoft said its sales of
Vista licenses stood at 140m - a figure that
was in line with its predictions.
At the same time Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer
said that XP could get a longer life if
enough customers demanded it.
During a Q&A session at a press conference in
Belgium Mr Ballmer said: "If customer
feedback varies, we can always wake up
smarter, but right now, we have a plan for
end-of-life for new XP shipments."
Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP
Home until 2010 on low-powered PCs, such as
the Asus Eee, that might struggle to cope
with Vista's power demands.
Source: BBC. |
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Re: Loopholes keep Windows XP
alive |
_whitespider_
Date:
2008-05-06
Time: 19:27:37
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And the award for biggest plagiarist on the
UKCB forums goes to Jack89!
This type of lazy copy-and-paste posting has
gotten forum sites closed due to copyright
violations. There's no way you can claim
copying entire articles is "fair usage".
There's nothing wrong with copying a chunk of
text, citing sources and adding your own
opinion on it but this takes the p*ss. |
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Re: Loopholes keep Windows XP
alive |
scoobymad555
Date:
2008-07-17
Time: 18:38:16
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still love the last paragraph of it though
..... cos it has nothing to do with the fact
that vista's to resource hungry for the new
wave of budget ultra portable machines or the
fact that nobody fancies paying £200 for the
machine followed by nearly the same for the
o/s when they can use linux on it quite
happily for free then no? oh ok my mistake,
it's just the gates-army doing the world
another favour then  lol! |
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Re: Loopholes keep Windows XP
alive |
scoobymad555
Date:
2008-07-17
Time: 19:36:47
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was looking around for a copy of xp not so
long ago as it happens .... cheapest i found
was a web addy :
digital-sunrise[censored]They're oem versions
but that's all good 
otherwise there's some cheap copies punting
around on fleabay but ya gotta be careful
with those. There's even some stupidly cheap
ones that are supplied as disc without key
.... which is fine if you've got the original
key until you find that they've sold you some
dodgy taiwan edition plus possibly a
corperate /enterprise one that wont take a uk
domestic key! .... shop carefully!! |
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