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July 07, 2008
XP is dead long live XP?
Well it has been a full week since the official death of windows XP so I guess there is no way for you to get a brand new system running windows xp.
Or not:
For those of you who still aren’t ready to make the leap, but think you might want to one day, Dell Small Business is now offering Vista Business and Vista Ultimate with Downgrade Service free on Latitude, Optiplex and Precision, and for a small fee on Vostro systems. With this service, we exercise your downgrade rights for you and factory-install XP Professional on your system while shipping you a CD for XP and a DVD for Vista. This way, you get the OS you’re comfortable with using now along with rights to upgrade to Vista when you’re ready, which offers investment protection for the future. When you’re ready to migrate to Vista, simply use the Vista DVD provided to run the install.
PC world says it best:
You know the PC biz has gotten weird when offering a 7-year-old OS becomes a marketing advantage. But the reason why is obvious. Vista is such a dog it qualifies for the Iditarod.
That is certainly an insult...to the dogs who run the iditarod, but in fairness they make an important point later on.
When Windows XP came out, it was panned for being slow and incompatible, just as Vista has been (in InfoWorld, no less). It was also woefully, almost laughably insecure. Imagine shipping an OS with the firewall turned off by default. Yet that was XP in 2001.
Then again the operating systems it replaced in 2001 came without firewalls period.
Posted by Peter at July 7, 2008 03:03 PM