Well duh! Every new computer has Vista installed on it when you buy it, 90% of the world use Windows and if (like me) you are reinstalling XP for the umteenth time due to hardware failure or virus/spyware attack you run out of activations. When I called MS to have my XP reactivated they refused advising me to upgrade to Vista instead. Yeah, great way to inflate your sales record Microshaft!
wrong use of term there, i'd say... to 'inflate' a figure in accounting terms u'd have to use dodgy account methods to make a number to look much better than it really is... and i think '40 million licenses' means just that, that there were '40 million licenses' sold/distributed
anyways, heard of this term called 'consumer's choice'? no one forced u to buy a PC that came with windows installed... and before u go 'well i could only get vista with dell/hp cuz they're cheaper', u could also have a 'choice' to build ur own pc from scratch and install xp or any other OS of ur choice...
and regarding them refusing to reactivate xp? i'd say good for them since that means this indicates that they're putting more efforts and concentration into making vista better, which makes sense to me.
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Well duh! Every new computer has Vista installed on it when you buy it, 90% of the world use Windows and if (like me) you are reinstalling XP for the umteenth time due to hardware failure or virus/spyware attack you run out of activations. When I called MS to have my XP reactivated they refused advising me to upgrade to Vista instead. Yeah, great way to inflate your sales record Microshaft!
wrong use of term there, i'd say... to 'inflate' a figure in accounting terms u'd have to use dodgy account methods to make a number to look much better than it really is... and i think '40 million licenses' means just that, that there were '40 million licenses' sold/distributed
anyways, heard of this term called 'consumer's choice'? no one forced u to buy a PC that came with windows installed... and before u go 'well i could only get vista with dell/hp cuz they're cheaper', u could also have a 'choice' to build ur own pc from scratch and install xp or any other OS of ur choice...
and regarding them refusing to reactivate xp? i'd say good for them since that means this indicates that they're putting more efforts and concentration into making vista better, which makes sense to me.