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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(Unverified)Feb 4th 2009 2:39PM
I was considering buying a new PC for my business but the only software available was Vista. Since Vista was not compatible with my scanner, printer etc., I decided to go with Mac X instead. I found it disgraceful that when I did check into purchasing a PC I was not given the option to have XP downloaded on to it.
I am "assuming" that Microsoft did not allowed companies that sell PC's to do this so that they can push their Vista on to the consumer's. Hey we are not stupid consumers, we like reasonable choices. Maybe that is why some of the companies that sold their products are going out of business. Poor C city.
(Unverified)Feb 4th 2009 2:44PM
You can install XP yourself if you know how or care to learn. Everyone wants everything handed to them on a platter.
(Unverified)Feb 4th 2009 2:55PM
XP & XP pro OS PCs are still available, as are compatibility upgrade software for most printers and fax machines ,unless to old which may concider newer eguip.
(Unverified)Feb 4th 2009 3:27PM
Dell still offers computers with XP.
(Unverified)Feb 4th 2009 3:56PM
Take it from an old-timer: I have used Macs and PC's from Day One [i.e., PC Jr and the 1984 Mac (even used some of their predecessors as far back as 1978)]. I've used them for business and at home. Never found anything that one could do that the other didn't eventually do too.
Cult-Smult! Get off the rhetoric and try them side by side [something you can do on one machine if you have an Intewl Mac]. MicroSoft makes some great software but most of it's not in the OS category.
I still prefer the MS Office suite to all others. It runs better on the Mac but I can use the files on the PC as well. MultiPlan [came with the first Macs] never was as good as its competition so they bought it out. Come to think of it that's how they got the original PC-OS (Remember how they scorned the graphic interface then copied it [badly]?)
When Windows finally did catch up, it was XP. XP is so much more useful than Vista (and some vendors will give it to you as "downgrade" that costs extra!). For all that I do (writing, record keeping, taxes, art, photography, internet, research, calculations, charts, etc. [no games, for that I'd get a Wii] the Apple platform is better business. OSX is another leap ahead of MS (but it's based on simpler stuff you can get for free out there with a growing number of useful applications being written in Unix and Linux, who knows?)