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Typo or bad joke?]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
...unfortunately I don't see that changing.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
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At some point in the next 10 years, Microsoft is going to have to say "screw compatibility" in order to build a leaner kernel which new apps can be built and older apps emulated.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
They have already tried that. Microsoft's untold big plan for .NET was:

1. Build a new, better and complete API
2. Make everyone develop applications for it
3. Ditch the underlaying, rotten and flawed operating system
4. Make chip makers support the API natively.

Pity it failed miserably. It just stopped at number 2; it was a naive move, thinking that developers would switch to a new API overnight. .NET is still struggling, and Microsoft is in limbo, with no development tool to cover Win32 native applications, which, to their dismal, are still the only applications being developed for the desktop (excluding other OSs, of course). This, once again, shows the current weakness of Microsoft, both in strategy and ability to impose themselves on the market; a thing they have not been able to do for a long, long time now.
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I'm using a Dell. Not heard of Dull, they some chinese knock off?



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That our they could just stockpile a ton of OEM licenses before June and continue to sell them that way.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
Stop marketing Vista to corporate customers.

Have the Vista Home line only.

Make Windows 7 the next thing to bring together the "code branches" so to speak. Please fix the GUI in 7, I would like to do things with the same amount of clicks as XP or less, not more.

Default Office 2007 to the old non-???x stuff, and give users the option of classic menus.

Fix Exchange 2007 (I would like to use powershell ONLY for scripting, not for the general config, and give me a damn 2007 Exchange enabled Active Directory MMC)]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
this old price is too expensive mac thing isnt relevent anymore since macs are much more affordable and generally have better hardware specs than the windows equivalent. So really stop embarrassing yourself by complaining "wo macs are soo expensive"]]>Apr 24th 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
Dual Quad Core Xeon's, 16GB RAM, RAID SAS, Windows Server 2008. $2500.

'nough said.
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I figure I'll still be using xp until vista sp2.]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
I'm torn between Vista and XP. My home machine runs Vista Ultimate, and it works OK, as long as I pay attention to the drivers. I wouldn't trust on my work machine however, especially with all the corporate stuff I have running on it. I'm happy to keep running XP for as long as it's supported.]]>Apr 24th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
I'd bet Dell wants to keep it around as long as possible because they have all their training and infrastructure built around it, not because they care about a few thousand people who are probably not Dell customers signing an online petition.

That's okay, Nilay. Make this seem like a bigger issue than it is. ]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
I agree with that Dell is probably thinking for itself and trying to save money. Albeit, they will probably continue to make money offering both Vista and XP as options for building a system.

Those who have a problem with Vista really have a problem with "change". Vista is just as customizable as XP, it is more secure, and runs smoothly. If it doesn't run smoothly on your system, get it off the Pentium III and 128mb of RAM. This is the same as the idiots who bought Crysis and thought it would run on their 5 year old system.

CHANGE, people. It's sometimes good to change once in a while. Or go to Mac or Linux...I, for one, use all 3.]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
I've had little to no problems with Vista, and certainly not the problems I had with XP when it was released (and maybe up until Service Pack 2 came around). And I'm no more in touch with computers than any other average user.

The hardware requirements? Non-issue : XP wasn't the smooth operator the first time around either, and realistically a new PC is on order any time a new OS ships anyway.

Compatibility? No more an issue than moving form 9x to NT. Other than waiting 4 months for my webcam driver after launch, everything installed like a charm, OR Windows itself had software to facilitate it working (Printers, Camera's, Printers)

Usability? Well.. this boils down to people not wanting to learn something new. Moving from 98 to XP was met with the same reaction of being too different (even though it really isn't).

Media hype and self-proclaimed experts wanting to put in there 2cents are a joke. If Mr. PC Expert on such and such website and magazine says there all sorts of problems, but me - joe-schmoe average user has zero issues - I'm more in-tune with computers than he is? Or lucky?]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
Because Vista is even worse. Every new Microsoft OS is worse than the previous one: this is why people are complaining. XP, albeit still a bloated OS, is pretty stable, can be run extremely well by today's average machines, and has negligible space requirements by today's standards. With Vista, it's 2001 all over again.]]>Apr 24th 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/
That means vista is not better that Win3.0. You make no sense.
I agree with Memphis, I have had vista on my 3 pcs for over a year now and have not nearly as many issues as when using XP. I will never go back to XP i dread it when I'm forced to use xp (School computers).]]>Apr 25th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 25th 2008 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/dell-rumored-to-be-selling-xp-until-2012-ballmer-says-ms-can-w/Apr 24th 2008 5:08PM