__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 20 April 2007 16:57 \__
> On Apr 19, 6:48 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Dell casts doubts on Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on
>> | some of its home systems, marking a potentially damaging blow to
>> | Microsoft's hopes for the newer Windows Vista.
>> |
>
> Of course Microsoft intends to cut off support for XP, by 2008 I've
> heard, and thus force everyone to upgrade. In the meantime, if I
> understand it right, Dell can't sell new machines with XP on them if
> Microsoft doesn't sell Dell the licences. So they could cut this off,
> too, if they wanted to. OTOH, if customers massively demand XP, even
> if it merely delays substantial Vista adoption by a year or so, it is
> not good news for Microsoft. The real opportunities for Linux uptake
> may not be right now so much as a year from now when the pressures to
> upgrade become stronger.
Exactly. Dell knows it will lose business (or run out of business) if it only
stocks Vista. That's why it's beginning to offer GNU/Linux (and H-P is still
testing it according to what I have been reading).
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