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icemanauto
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Windows XP Pro |
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Hope someone can help me. Does anyone know a site I can download Windows XP Pro. My disk got broke,  I got a product key so I don't want to have to buy a new one if I don't have too. Thank everyone[/b] |
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Marcin
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You shouldn't have problem with free extra genuine CD with OS from Microsoft. You can try faster and call them.
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Cobracon
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Get your copies of XP while they last. Though this may be old news to some, Microsoft will stop supplying XP to retailers and manufacturers very soon. MSNBC has been reporting the news all morning.
I'd rather have my teeth yanked out than have to switch over to Vista "Headache" if and when the time comes. 
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icemanauto
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| I just got off the phone with mircosoft and because I don't have the receipt for the copy I bought I have to buy a new one, I even told them I would send the cracked disk and no go. Thanks everyone for the help. |
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Cobracon
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I hate to hear that, but I'm not surprised. That company (and Bill Gates in particular) has more money than most 3rd World countries, but they always want more. Past customers mean nothing to them.
Like I said in an earlier post, new XP copies will soon be a thing of the past, and Vista still has all sorts of driver and compatability problems that Microsoft is dragging their feet on solving. That's exactly what you get with a virtual monopoly.
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CPUShack
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Cobracon wrote: | I hate to hear that, but I'm not surprised. That company (and Bill Gates in particular) has more money than most 3rd World countries, but they always want more. Past customers mean nothing to them.
Like I said in an earlier post, new XP copies will soon be a thing of the past, and Vista still has all sorts of driver and compatability problems that Microsoft is dragging their feet on solving. That's exactly what you get with a virtual monopoly. |
New XP copies will be available for another 7 months.
They will be available fo several more years on the secondary market.
Vista does not have that many probalems, its biggest problem is the massive system requirements. If you meet those, it runs like a champ. I have not encountered driver issues or program compatibility problem (probably because I dont insisnt on trying to run Win95 programs on it)
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Cobracon
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| CPUShack wrote: | | Cobracon wrote: | I hate to hear that, but I'm not surprised. That company (and Bill Gates in particular) has more money than most 3rd World countries, but they always want more. Past customers mean nothing to them.
Like I said in an earlier post, new XP copies will soon be a thing of the past, and Vista still has all sorts of driver and compatability problems that Microsoft is dragging their feet on solving. That's exactly what you get with a virtual monopoly. |
New XP copies will be available for another 7 months.
They will be available fo several more years on the secondary market.
Vista does not have that many probalems, its biggest problem is the massive system requirements. If you meet those, it runs like a champ. I have not encountered driver issues or program compatibility problem (probably because I dont insisnt on trying to run Win95 programs on it) |
Well, I didn't expect Microsoft to run out and collect all the existing copies of XP off the shelves. I understand how they will sell down, BUT MSNBC and all of the major news organizations (be they print, TV, or Internet) are advertising the end of Microsoft supplying XP. Of course, the whole news media organization could be wrong.
Sure, you have no problem at all with Vista, the problem (based on THOUSANDS of postings to Help Forums) is the general raw/unfinished nature of Vista in all it's forms. I know folks who have systems with MORE than enough 'system requirements' and they still have oddball problems. The fact Vista is such a system Hog is in itself a problem.
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icemanauto
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| I read on yahoo news this was the last day for XP and the only way to get one was through secondary market Microsoft said it's a Vista world now. I got Vista home and put it on my laptop and nope, put it on a computer I builted and it worked Ok but ALOT (video card, sound card ect.) devices forget it. Friend of mine trade me his new MSI video card for a older ATI because couldn't get it to work. All about the money |
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CPUShack
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| icemanauto wrote: | | I read on yahoo news this was the last day for XP and the only way to get one was through secondary market Microsoft said it's a Vista world now. I got Vista home and put it on my laptop and nope, put it on a computer I builted and it worked Ok but ALOT (video card, sound card ect.) devices forget it. Friend of mine trade me his new MSI video card for a older ATI because couldn't get it to work. All about the money |
Windows XP is still available for System builders until January 31st, 2009.
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CPUShack
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| icemanauto wrote: | | http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xp;_ylt=AhbqQhQ_X3sXqoVwICc6VHSs0NUE |
Exactly as the aricle says
| Quote: | | Microsoft will still allow smaller mom-and-pop PC builder shops to buy XP for resale through the end of January |
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icemanauto
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I never said you was wrong and said the same in my post, just put it up so people could read about it. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| icemanauto wrote: | | I never said you was wrong and said the same in my post, just put it up so people could read about it. |
ahh no worries 
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