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Wednesday, June 04, 2008, 08:00 pm
Ballmer: you can buy Vista and downgrade to XP for free
By Sam Oliver
On Topic: General
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Oh, this will go down in history! If this isn't the beginning of the end for Microsoft, I give up.
Bwahahaha
Our office still won't upgrade to Vista. We can't afford the downtime should something run amiss, which is pretty much bound to happen to at least one installation of Vista. However, I at least applaud Micro for having the option for downgrade (not that they would have much of a choice for the riots that would ensue).

Ballmer egged in Hungary last month.
I'm wondering what this has to do with the article, but it was pretty funny nonetheless. If you notice, a bunch of the students have Macs.
I don't think downgrade rights are anything new. I think Windows XP Pro was offered with downgrade rights to Windows 2000 Pro. Maybe the same thing with 2000 to NT 4. I have a notebook computer that had XP Pro and 2000 Pro.
But what about those of us who bought systems with XP recently because we knew Vista was crap?

But what about those of us who bought systems with XP recently because we knew Vista was crap?
should have bought a mac?

But what about those of us who bought systems with XP recently because we knew Vista was crap?
What of it? Didn't you get what you wanted?

But what about those of us who bought systems with XP recently because we knew Vista was crap?
You got XP without paying for Vista to get it. Beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick--except insofar as using Windows at all is a lot like that to begin with!
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