Dell Extends Desktop XP Sales

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 22nd Jun 2008
Dell Extends Desktop XP Sales
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It isn't much of an extension, but it is enough to get Microsoft's backs up.

Following on from its decision to allow customers to downgrade to Windows XP ('downgrade' is a subjective term in my opinion) the monster box shifter has added a week to its standard XP sales deadline.


Raising two fingers to the Redmond 30 June cut-off date Dell is pushing the boat out to offer XP Home based systems until 26 June (20 June was the popular reseller limit due to stocking and shipping restrictions). Ultimately then Dell is offering up itself as the sole company this week (that we know of) which will continue to ship XP to the sane die-hards. After this date the downgrade scheme will kick in with a processing charge.

As it stands only Dell desktops will be offered under this short-lived scheme - specifically XPS 630, 720 H2C and M1730 models.

So if you are feeling the pain of the venerable OS's retail passing as much as me Dell will welcome you with open arms. Open, opportunistic arms...

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Comment HSC said on 23rd June 2008

familiar - anyone who has used XP can pickup vista in seconds

compatibility - Vista has something like double the number of device drivers than XP. Otherwise this u... more

Comment Tony Walker said on 23rd June 2008

Having ditched Vista after regrettably installing service pack 1, I went back to the familiarity of XP.

I then tried to use my SATA based twin drive (RAID 1) with it... more

Comment Gordon said on 24th June 2008

Have to say HSC I disagree with you in just about every way possible ;)
It's a resource hungry, boated, overly intrusive lemon.

Comment Andy said on 24th June 2008

Personally, after SP1, I'm pretty happy with Vista. It's not anything like it was promised but I use it all day on my laptop at work and rarely, if ever, run into any pro... more

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