Microsoft is shipping PCs with a Vista Business licence but with XP pre-loaded.
So, in other words, Microsoft counts a sale for Vista, even though the computer manufacturer has really sold XP.
XP still killing Vista in sales volume: HP
Image that…M$ misleading the public :D:D
I don’t care. Always either i assemble the pcs by myself or i buy ‘naked’ ones. They are doing everything is possible to push vista, but it seems to be a battle lost.Look here, just for example, but there are a lot of sites talking about it, read what they are doing to try to convince the people to think that vista is good:BetaNews | Is Microsoft’s Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?.
In Italy we say: they are at the gas (maybe the translation does not render).
Dell does the same as HP. They’ll install XP-Pro but you get disks for both Vista and XP. You pay an extra $99 for this “downgrade”. But companies who have an XP Volume License Agreement don’t need to pay the extra, they just order a Vista Business machine, wipe it clean, and install XP-Pro themselves. I think that’s what we do as Vista doesn’t play well with all the MS server software we have on our network.