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By: Apple: Yo, I Got Ya ‘Wow’ Right Here | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:29:30 +0000

[...] in the first four days.” Clearly, Mac users are quite a bit more excited about Leopard, than Windows users are about Vista. Print Share Sphere Comment Tagged: Digital Daily | [...]

By: Appliances or platforms? « turnings

Appliances or platforms? « turnings — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:37:43 +0000

[...] bad press). Perhaps Apple should learn from Microsoft, which listened to its customers and will be selling Windows XP for six months longer than previously announced, due to anemic uptake of Windows Vista. [Not only will Apple lose, but all these appliances can [...]

By: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone » Microsoft's big 2007 releases: if only Vista were as beloved as Halo 3. - Hoover's

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:09:27 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn’t won big with Vista, the newest version of the Windows operating system, which was released in January of this year: Act Now and Get a Downgrade to the OS You Really Want, ABSOLUTELY FREE! [...]

By: Peter Knoll

Peter Knoll — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:24:07 +0000

I purchased an Acer Aspire 5570Z with Vista Home Premium pre-installed and have discovered that many of my peripherals do not work fully or at all. I would like to downgrade to XP. In response to your article, I contacted both Acer and Microsoft and got nowhere. Acer told me that I have no right to downgrade and Microsoft told me that they have no idea what I’m talking about. WHAT DO I DO NOW? (Incidentally, The Windows Vista Advisor tells me that my HP 5510 should work fine with Vista; it doesn’t.)

By: How To Upgrade Vista | How To Split An Atom

How To Upgrade Vista | How To Split An Atom — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:24:51 +0000

[...] Windows XP has received a stay of execution, and a well deserved one at that. For months Microsoft has been smoothing over corporate irritation with its less than stable Windows Vista OS by offering to “downgrade” their systems back to XP as a sort of patch. Now, they have decided to take this one step further by allowing retail outlets to continue selling XP machines beyond the one year cut off date that they had originally set. [...]