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  3. February 2009

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

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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