I ordered a coiuple of Gateway Tablets this past May from Gateway....
They came standard with Vista.....
Since I was ordering directly from the factory, your system is customizable; I told them NOT to load Vista but XP.
First they told me that they couldn’t because of their agreement with Microsoft. I told them I really didn’t care. Then they told me it would cost me $220 more....I said “Thanks, I’ll shop elsewhere”. Then they came back and stated it was approved.... What a hassle.
BTW, the Gateway Tablets have been great.....
Dang! What an experience. At the Dell website, the machines I looked at with XP, start out about a hundred dollars more expensive than comparable ones. Glad you got yours without paying extra! I got some other goodies for free, though, since I used our company portal for a discount.
That’s too bad. Windows Vista offers much more than XP for Tablet PCs.
Don’t assume everything you read on the internet is the truth.
If more people did what you did, perhaps MS would get the hint.
Dell, Gateway, etc. are businesses in business to make money.