By Mike Ricciuti
Published: Thursday 24 April 2008
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Given that most private PC purchasers are stuck with Vista Home ..., they do not have the free option of installing XP. This distorts update figures in favour of Vista. If MS had continued shipping XP Home OEM with free update to Vista, manufacturers would probably have stayed away in droves.
Vista just does not run a huge number of popular third-party applications without buying updates for them. So replacing a PC also requires replacing most of your software too. You might as well buy a Mac.
well here's my vote for XP
and I know a lot of ...
Karen Challinor
Given that most private PC purchasers are stuck wi...
Andrew Robb
People do not choose to buy Vista. The presence o...
Nick Cole
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