Posted on 07/01/2009 6:33:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I have a computer with Windows Vista but prefer Windows XP. Who sells new computers with XP? I think such vendors must exist, because my company still uses XP and presumably buys computers for new employees.
I just got a nice “E-Machine”....not too expensive and was glad that it had XP instead of Vista....
There is a third choice.
I’ve been using Vista at home on three computers and it has worked fine. But I upgraded to the trial version of Windows 7 recently on my laptop which I am using now. It can be purchased for $49.95 for a limited time and the free version will continue to operate just fine until March 2010 at which time it will shut down at periodic intervals reminding people to upgrade. You have burn a disc and install it but it was pretty seamless to be truthful. I think it will be fine and in my opinion a good deal better than XP. I think this whole XP/Vista controversy is a lot of nothing except for corporate users and dedicated software. For most software home Vista users will do just fine as will Windows 7.
BTW, I’m no computer wizard but the Windows 7 download went rather well. Time consuming but I’m glad I did it. Looks pretty good to me. But again I had no problems with Vista either.
I will probably put Windows 7 on all three home computers. I also use Firefox and Thunderbird. Works fine.
Well stated. I couldn’t agree more.
That looks awesome! Thanks for the tip. I may just get one.
Glad to help. Very pleased with the netbook. Note that it only comes with a trial version of MSOffice. Means you’ll either need to pay for that if you want it or use free OpenOffice instead. I installed OpenOffice, Thunderbird, AVG free, and several other applications. All have worked well.
> You could also embrace the Darkside,
either use bit torrent or binary newsgroups, there are versions of XP which can use auto-update without a problem and do not require registration.<
...this “friend that I know” (cough)has 5 versions of XP thru mininova. MOST of them dont’ need registration plus 1 of them amazingly was created with the Vista Aero interface. why 5? For future events from MS that will eventually outlaw XP.
How does your friend know the pirated versions of XP aren’t security compromised? They could be monitoring keystrokes for logins and passwords.
Yes, XP is available.
More importantly the service support is excellent and for small business purchases, the tech support is exclusively US based, not India.
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