Comment Re:how on earth? (Score 1) 748
Oh, yes you can. I sell them!
Big retailers only sell Vista - I suspect but don't have proof that they get steep discounts on Vista if they agree not to sell XP.
Small Independants (that's me) will sell whatever the customer wants, and at the moment most of my customers want XP, so I'm buying OEM XP and pre-installing it for people.
Hell, even Dell offer laptops with XP as an option - the demand is there for it, after all - but the average customer will take what he's given to some extent, and that's what PC Hurled etc etc are banking on, that that's why all these "You can't return it unless it's physically faulty" vista policies are coming from (Go to curry's and ask about returning Vista and you'll be surprised!)
Big retailers only sell Vista - I suspect but don't have proof that they get steep discounts on Vista if they agree not to sell XP.
Small Independants (that's me) will sell whatever the customer wants, and at the moment most of my customers want XP, so I'm buying OEM XP and pre-installing it for people.
Hell, even Dell offer laptops with XP as an option - the demand is there for it, after all - but the average customer will take what he's given to some extent, and that's what PC Hurled etc etc are banking on, that that's why all these "You can't return it unless it's physically faulty" vista policies are coming from (Go to curry's and ask about returning Vista and you'll be surprised!)
