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XP downgrade disks extended to OEMs for six more months!

An important update from IDG News Service: Microsoft will provide hardware partners with media to let their customers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP for six months longer than it originally planned, the company confirmed Friday. The move comes...

Published Fri, Oct 03 2008 6:01 PM by Shane Schick
Microsoft offers tool to verify ‘genuine’ editions of Windows XP

From Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service: Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 6:00 PM by Shane Schick
MS still activating XP installations

Although Microsoft stopped selling XP through retailers June 30, users will still be able to activate XP, according to PC World. Lincoln Spector filed this report. According to a Microsoft representative, you will be able to activate new XP installations...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 5:59 PM by Greg Meckbach
The down-low on Vista users who took the XP ‘downgrade’ offer

From InfoWorld: When Microsoft stopped selling new licenses to Windows XP on June 30, it gave users and PC makers a “downgrade” loophole so that those who wanted XP could still get it, even though they still had to buy a Vista license. According...

Published Tue, Aug 19 2008 5:59 PM by Shane Schick
Readers react to petition results

We recently published a story on the results of our Save XP petition, which gathered 2,125 signatures. Reaction was mixed. Shawn Wright of London, Ont. wrote: “As a computer system builder I find that the negative PR circulating about vista is overblown...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 5:58 PM by Greg Meckbach
One in eight users choose Vista

Over the past two months, InfoWorld’s Robert X. Cringely has been running surveys on the BuzzDash and Tynan on Technology sites. Among other topics, Cringely and his team have asked users about operating systems. Question 2 on the survey was: You’re...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 5:57 PM by Greg Meckbach
2,125 Canadians want to save Windows XP

Microsoft Corp. has stopped selling Windows XP through retailers and is strongly encouraging users to upgrade to Vista, touting the new operating system as more secure with a better interface. But more than 2,000 users beg to differ. Before we removed...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 5:57 PM by Greg Meckbach
Vista SP1 ‘probably more secure’ than XP

Despite some reported glitches, the Vista operating system does has some advantages. Robert Mitchell of Computerworld filed this report, titled “Reconsidering Vista.” OK, it’s not perfect. But Windows Vista on a new PC is perfectly serviceable...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 5:56 PM by Greg Meckbach
Vista received like the ‘New Coke’

If you’re younger than 35, (or if you were asleep during the mid-80s), some explanation is required. Coca Cola decided in about 1985 that the formula for its flagship drink was a little dated, so it started shipping “New Coke,” which...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 5:55 PM by Greg Meckbach
Aversion to Vista like belief Earth is flat: MS

What do Microsoft and ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes of Cyrene have in common? Both have educated the masses on the true shape of the earth. The Web site Adrants , which comments on advertising campaigns, has posted commentary on a Microsoft ad reminding...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 5:55 PM by Greg Meckbach
MS finds new ways to push Vista

Microsoft Corp. has launched a promotional campaign, temporarily offering free phone support to small business users buying new hardware loaded with Windows Vista operating system. Gregg Keizer of Computerworld filed this report Microsoft offers free...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 5:54 PM by Greg Meckbach
InfoWorld collects 210,562 signatures on its petition

Today is the last day Windows XP will be available through retailers. One of our affiliate publications, InfoWorld, says more than 210,000 users have signed its petition asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available through all channels. Editor Eric Knorr...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2008 5:51 PM by Greg Meckbach
How to get XP after June 30

James Gaskin of Network World wrote this report, which gives you advice on how to scrounge a machine with Windows XP, without paying through the nose for Vista only to downgrade. Microsoft stops selling XP next week. Microsoft warned us well over a year...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 5:50 PM by Greg Meckbach
Dear Customers: Microsoft addresses the XP outcry

With only one week to go before it pulls the plug on sales of the operating system, Microsoft made public a letter sent to customers about their support options, the business issues and the future of Windows 7. Read the full story here: MS plugs downgrades...

Published Mon, Jun 23 2008 5:52 PM by Shane Schick
Microsoft calls shots on XP downgrades, says Dell

From Computerworld U.S.: Microsoft has put limits on the types of PCs that can be downgraded to Windows XP after June 30, Dell said yesterday, a restriction that means it will offer home users the option only on machines designed for gamers. Buyers of...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 5:52 PM by Shane Schick

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XP downgrade disks extended to OEMs for six more months!

Microsoft offers tool to verify ‘genuine’ editions of Windows XP

MS still activating XP installations

The down-low on Vista users who took the XP ‘downgrade’ offer

Readers react to petition results

One in eight users choose Vista

2,125 Canadians want to save Windows XP

Vista SP1 ‘probably more secure’ than XP

Vista received like the ‘New Coke’

Aversion to Vista like belief Earth is flat: MS

MS finds new ways to push Vista

InfoWorld collects 210,562 signatures on its petition

How to get XP after June 30

Dear Customers: Microsoft addresses the XP outcry

Microsoft calls shots on XP downgrades, says Dell

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