Why are they still offering new computers with Windows XP on them??

[jerkbox]

I assumed if I bought a new machine that it would be Vista....but lots of sites out there allow you to choose. I don't get it, why are they still shipping XP? Does Vista suck that bad?

 

[KillahBee]

Give it a fucking second to materialize you impatient cuntfart

 

[jerkbox]

what?

 

[Cutiebaby]

I prefer xp..Maybe that is becasue I am more used to it..but from my few experiences with Vista, it sucks ass!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I assumed if I bought a new machine that it would be Vista....but lots of sites out there allow you to choose. I don't get it, why are they still shipping XP? Does Vista suck that bad?

Yeah. Probably will til sometime early next year at least. Still a lot of bugs, even MS devotees are grumbling of how it isn't running well or cooperating well with peripheral hardware, games, etc. It looks cool though, lol. If I was getting a new PC now I'd definitely still use XP for another year or so. By then Vista should be pretty solid.

 

[KillahBee]

what?

Give it a few days, maing. They don't roll out a new product and pull all the old ones immediately.

 

[jerkbox]

heh...weird...well, this is for a secondary computer sort of.....a laptop that I use for working on site for clients...i kinda wanted to try vista out anyway, but now I'm not not so sure.

seems in the past that once they started shipping a new OS, they phased out the old one a lot quicker

 

[jh1]

I been running that shits since October.

It's up to the manufacturer of the computer what to load, if microsoft had it their way no more xp would ever be sold. They try to incent everyone to move on.

And it's not a scenario where they bought X number of XP and they need ot move them before loading Vista, thats not the way MS OEM works.

 

[velvett]

Wait til you try and download drivers... for Vista

 

[jerkbox]

i dont really even want vista....i don't like learning a new OS where they friggin moved everything around....especially when they've just added a new layer of dumbed down shit to help the average retard use his computer....

but I figure i'm just delaying the inevitable