Dear Microsoft

[den]

Windows Vista and Office 2007 ARE NOT ENHANCING MY COMPUTING EXPERIENCE.

aagh!

Comments

[jamesb]

To do a legal downgrade to XP Pro, you need to have either Vista Business or Vista Ultimate Edition, but it can be a pain to get XP Pro installed and activated when you do the downgrade.

Another problem is that some of the pre-installed versions of Vista are coming with a MBR (Master Boot Record) sector that doesn't conform to the MBR standard, and will not allow either dual booting or the downgrade to XP Pro, in its as shipped state.

There are still a few companies selling new "special order" machines with XP Pro, but Microsoft requires that to cease by the end of January 2008. However, Microsoft have recently made the downgrade process a bit easier, and will allow computer manufacturers to ship some Vista computers with XP Pro CDs that will simplify the downgrade process and subsequent activation ... clicky.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I use $12k of software in the office that will NOT run on Vista. I am hanging on to my XP CDs like mad. Any new PCs will get a low level format first thing.