Dell Brings XP Back for Consumer PCs

[Ron]

Dell Brings XP Back for Consumer PCs

[Clayton]

[Chuck Engels]

A very wise decision in my opinion

[Clayton]

Even though the article says XP was for two dimension desktops (E-520 and E-521), I looked at Dell's site and the high end XPS versions have it. In fact the very highest shows only XP as OS.

[Maxine370]

Yes, that's because there are some pretty significant problems with Vista and the Gaming options of those machines. Before they brought back the XP for the Dimensions, if you wanted XP still you could get a top level XPS to get it with XP instead of Vista.

[Wheat King]

It'll be interesting to see if otehr manufactures follow suite.

[Bob]

FYI,

This depends on the contract the specific manufacturer has with Microsoft. That will end early next year. Microsoft has pulled the plug on all oem manufacturers installing Windows XP on their PCs after January 31, 2008.

That will mainly affect consumers and small businesses. Large businesses will also have to buy Vista but they usually have downgrade rights and already own XP volume media that they can use to legally substitute for Vista.