Re: Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months
OK. If you wish to believe so 
Good luck anyway.
"the granter of sina" <granter@yan.sina> wrote in message
news:48e81ca5$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> "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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "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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