Re: Do you feel degraded by Microsoft's downgrade program?

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or buy a Netbook instead of a Notebook.  I'm giving strong consideration to
an MSI Wind.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> John -
>
> Thanks for your opinion.
>
> I felt much the same as you about the 'downgrade', since it appeared that
> it
> was the hardware companies that were doing it.
>
> Unfortunately, some new machines aren't capable of downgrading to XP.
>
> My nephew found out the hard way on his Toshiba laptop that came preloaded
> with Vista.  He tried to load XP on it and hit a brick wall.  He called
> Toshiba support and they told him that his model does NOT support Windows
> XP.
>
> However, he was finally able to get XP to run on it, but only after
> spending
> around 40 hours looking around the net for drivers, and he still only has
> one working USB port out of 4...
>
> I'm just going to wait for Windows 7, or (if I absolutely need another
> machine) just buy another refurbished Dell with Windows XP.
>
> - sjl
>
>
>
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