For reasons beyond our ability to fathom, the boss bought 5 new PC's from
Dell with Vista on them. After finding out that half the software in the
world and almost ALL of our software won't run on Vista, we contacted Dell to
try to find out about downgrading to XP. We might as well have called and
said "My talking book uncle monkey hat." It's Pointless! It's Usless!
It's Dell!
We went out & bought 4 copies of XP pro which we manged to load with agreat
deal of problems (Dell Driver Hell) and now all four computers are giving us
a 28 day countdown to activation.
Even if we bite the bullet and start upgrading all our systems to XP, we're
ALWAYS loading & reloading software & swapping motherboards and trying to
stay ahead of 32 of the dumbest end users on the planet -- there is NO WAY we
can keep track of what number goes with what motherboard, where, when & how
we've had to change something. So my question is this: How is this handled
by people who have hundreds or thousands of computers?