MS Reportedly Adds 6 Months of Vista Downgrade

LiteralKa sends in a poorly sourced Reg story claiming that Microsoft has granted OEMs six more months to sell PCs using Windows Vista with the support to downgrade to Windows XP. OEMs can now offer such arrangements until July 31, 2009 — the previous deadline was January 31, 2009. The article claims as source "a Reg reader" without further details. Neither Microsoft nor any OEM has confirmed the rumor, and only a few scattered bloggers have picked it up.

Gasp!

[Samantha Wright]

Critical reception of the Reg? It's about time. Good work, submitter.

Re:Vista Home

[Anonymous Coward]

As an african american, I am outraged by your use of the deregotary word samba. We're on the verge of electing the first black president by a landslide but some people refuse to give up their racist attitudes.

Never mind that, Windows $NEXT_VERSION!

[David Gerard]

I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP. [today.com]

I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.

WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED_VERSION user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!

I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.

Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!

I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.

The Buzz

[Stanistani]

The bees seems to love it...

Any operating system that our crop-pollinating overlords prefer is all right by me!

Re:Thank God

[Dunbal]

So Vista sucks because your father (who must be what? 60? 70?) can't install a printer driver?

      Yeah, my father, who worked for IBM, who programmed mainframes to do accounting and payroll for companies with thousands of employees (think GM, etc), who has had every imaginable kind of PC since the 70's. He can't install a printer driver for his HP All-in-one. So your point was? Not every 60 year old is computer illiterate.

Re:Adding 6 months of..

[JAZ]

I hate to be a Grammar Nazi, but, in this context, the preferred spelling is "UPGRAYEDD".

This reminds me...

[Aphoxema]

One of my many bosses at work was really, totally into Vista, defended it tooth and nail and swore up and down it was the best thing he ever had done did see. I kept telling him he'd end up hating it, and just didn't believe me. Asked me if I ever used, and I explained the only time I ever did was for five minutes playing with a Touchsmart at Best Buy. He said if I hadn't used it then I really have no right to talk bad about it, so I just let it go.

Then he started having problems, blue screens, he shelled out a couple hundred on a new motherboard trying to bulldoze the problem, and it did fix it.

Then he got SP1, and he got blue screens again, then he reinstalled and he still got them.

Then he bought new memory...

New hard drive...

New processor...

New video card...

Then, and I swear this is a pretty bright guy, he found out it was shoddy web cam drivers, the one he insisted to always have plugged in.

Then he switched back to XP just so he could keep using that web cam. I said, "It's not Microsoft's fault that this company made bad drivers" and he said "Yeah, I decided Vista wasn't so amazing after all"

Re:Adding 6 months of..

[Anonymous Psychopath]

Downgrade? Upgrade is more like it.

You poor, poor dead horse. You've been beaten so badly. Rest now.