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Old 04-25-2007   #9 (permalink)
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Re: A first from Dell: giving customers a choice of Windows operating systems


Oh the cheerleading. You couldn't acknowledge that this is what their
customers want...

Bill Halvorsen



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OSjI4m4hHHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> What about the "fact" that HP is out selling Dell - and HP is offering
> only Vista?
>
> Dell is just losing it and they are grabbing at a life ring.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> news:Opu34i4hHHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Today in a newspaper advertisement for Dell computers directed at
>> business
>> customers, the ad gave customers a choice of Windows Vista or Windows XP
>> for
>> each computer being offered. I've never seen anything like this before.
>> In
>> the past, once a new version of Windows had come out, Dell sold all its
>> new
>> computers with the new version.
>>
>> What this seems to indicate is that Dell is aware of the problems with
>> Vista
>> and the unhappiness many users have expressed about it, so they want to
>> attract more customers by giving them the option of buying XP.
>>
>>

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