[real-eyes] Re: Fw: Dell Brings Back Windows XP As Option
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Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: Dell Brings Back Windows XP As Option
> This comes from BetaNews at http://www.betanews.com.
>
> Dell Brings Back Windows XP as Option
>
> By
>
> Nate Mook
>
> , BetaNews
>
> April 19, 2007, 2:59 PM
>
>
>
> In response to huge customer demand,
>
> Dell
>
> has brought back Windows XP Home and Professional as operating system
> options on a handful of consumer PCs. The computer maker, like most
> others, had largely
>
> switched its product lines entirely to Windows Vista.
>
>
>
> The decision came after feedback on Dell's
>
> IdeaStorm Web site
>
> , where customers are asked what things they'd like to see the company do.
> Previous requests have included offering Linux as an option, and including
> OpenOffice
>
> rather than just Microsoft Office.
>
>
>
> "We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our
> Dell consumer PC offerings," the company said. Four Dell Inspirion
> laptops --
>
> 1405, 1705, 1505, and 1501 models -- will offer XP, as well as two
> Dimension desktops, the E520 and E521.
>
>
>
> Dell earlier this month brought back Windows XP as an option for
>
> small business
>
> customers, but said it had no plans to do so for home users.
>
>
>
> "Dell does not have plans to launch Windows XP for home users as the
> preference and demand is for the "latest and greatest" technology which
> includes
>
> Windows Vista
>
> ," Tom West, Dell's director of small business marketing, wrote in a
>
> blog post
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> before noting the proposal was on IdeaStorm.
>
>
>
> Consumer-oriented Windows XP systems have been hard to find following
> Windows Vista's launch at the end of January. Microsoft has urged computer
> manufacturers
>
> to make the switch, and few expected much of a demand for the more-than 5
> year-old XP. But many customers haven't seen much of a need to upgrade,
> especially
>
> with application compatibility problems and a lack of hardware drivers for
> Vista.
>
>
>
> "Offer XP to everyone," one Dell customer from Texas named David wrote on
> the company's blog. "Vista may be the latest, but not the greatest. I
> would shy
>
> away from any computer manufacturer that forced me to buy Vista when the
> software and hardware I have don't work with it."
>
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