Re: Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months
from what you 2 guys say its clear that you have no experience with the
matter.
I DO
"xfile" <coucou@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:O0lbfVnJJHA.3460@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I don't think it is so much a question of voiding your warranty, but
>>rather of losing/not having available to you customer support.
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> Right, and I believe that is based on Microsoft's OEM license agreement
> for OEM (in this case, it's not Dell but the one installed the OS) has to
> perform customer support. Warranty shouldn't be an issue.
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> "Earle Horton" <earleh@terra.comx> wrote in message
> news:%23cq067mJJHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I don't think it is so much a question of voiding your warranty, but
>>rather of losing/not having available to you customer support. Believe
>>me, I have called Dell Technical Support and you don't need it. If
>>something breaks then you call the Warranty number or use the web site,
>>give them your Service Tag number, describe the symptoms and they send you
>>a new one before you can even tell them that DHL doesn't service your
>>geographical area...
>>
>> Of course I made a Ghost image of the Vista partition before putting XP
>> on it, but that is on a USB drive in the storage cabinet now. The copy
>> of Vista that I have available on the computer is a copy of Vista
>> Business without any of the Dell bloatware. Dells come with a really
>> neat Recovery partition too. It's a 10 GB partition big enough to boot
>> Vista and hold an image of the factory configuration and a program to
>> restore it. If you really, really become convinced that the computer has
>> a warranty problem, restore the computer to factory configuration, see if
>> you were right and send it back to them if so. Then when you get the
>> replacement install XP on that one.
>>
>> When and if you install XP on one of these computers you become
>> responsible for your own Customer Support. But XP has been out for so
>> long now with so many "XP for Dummies" books that that should be a no
>> brainer.
>>
>> --
>> Earle Horton -- earleh@terra.comx
>>
>> "the granter of sina" <granter@yan.sina> wrote in message
>> news:48e7c75b@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>> Since you still have vista on the machine I would think that if the hard
>>> drive was functional still you would wipe out the XP partition and send
>>> it for repair, no harm done....
>>>
>>> This is a work around that I have advised some people to do In the case
>>> of dells and other stupid computers that void their warrantee if someone
>>> installs a different OS (dual booting the original OS (vista) with the
>>> much better stable and faster OS (XP) so that the original OS is not
>>> lost.
>>>
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>>> "Earle Horton" <earleh@terra.comx> wrote in message
>>> news:udO5WpkJJHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> I bought a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop at Wal-Mart for $550 last
>>>> Christmas. After fighting with Vista for a month or two I had no
>>>> trouble getting an OEM copy of XP from Amazon marketplace for $35 or
>>>> so. I have it dual booted with Vista now. Sometimes I run Vista for
>>>> an hour or two "for a laugh". As far as I can see, it doesn't have
>>>> anything that XP didn't except more ways to annoy the customer. Lots
>>>> more ways.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Earle Horton -- earleh@terra.comx
>>>>
>>>> "the granter of sina" <granter@yan.sina> wrote in message
>>>> news:48e77f47@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>>> windows vista is worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft Bob never took off
>>>>> and windowsMe was ignored because without WGA everyone just formatted
>>>>> winMe and installed win98 back.
>>>>>
>>>>> But Vista is being forced down everyone's throats and its deliberately
>>>>> being spread like a bad disease!
>>>>>
>>>>> Downgrade rights my FOOT! Try to get the DELL model you want and have
>>>>> them use the downgrade rights to
>>>>> have XP on the machine! THEY WONT DO IT! Plus if you do it yourself
>>>>> the warrantee is void....
>>>>>
>>>>> You see its MS's pressure on to companies like DELL to push vista that
>>>>> is doing this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Alias" <iamalias@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:gc7mob$olo$2@aioe.org...
>>>>>> Vista Cabal wrote:
>>>>>>> "the granter of sina" <granter@yan.sina> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:48e6d370@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>>>>>> MS knows Vista is crap lol
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bottom line:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's precisely it, it's a business descision, not a crap one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Vista Cabal
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And, next to Windows Me and Microsoft Bob, one of the worst decisions
>>>>>> Microsoft has ever made.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alias
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