"aa" <a@microsoft.ru> wrote in message
news:u0YULZo%23JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue][color=green]
>> Nobody forced you to buy that HP[/color]
>
> Earle, if you read me carefully you will see that I do not complain about
> HP.
> My complaint is about MS who forced HP to sell computers with VISTA only.
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>> Neither HP nor Microsoft is under any obligation to provide you with[/color]
> another[color=green]
>> computer that can run XP[/color]
>
> Absurd! MS, as far as I know, does not sell hardware - why do you think I
> might consider MS under obligation to provide me with a computer? HP are
> happy to supply computers with XP, but MS does not sell them relevant
> license.
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>>Changing the user interface has been a huge pain
>> in the neck to some but it violates no comsumer laws that I am aware of.[/color]
>
> Earle, by your comments lawyer is not your trade or even hobby - you have
> difficulties to understand what exactly I am unhappy about.
> I am not an idiot to complain about MS changing user interface of their
> new
> product. I am complaining that MS withheld licences for the previous
> versions of OS thus forcing consumers to buy they new OS. And the Web is
> full of people unhappy with VISTA and wanting to go back to XP or w2k. Of
> my
> contacts I know only two, happy with VISTA. Both are young people, both
> using computers for entertainment purposes only - music, video, Internet
> browsing. For those using computer for business swear when are reminded of
> VISTA.
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>> If there is a system recovery partition or system install disks that[/color]
> came with[color=green]
>> it that should do nicely.[/color]
>
> You probably are aware that they do not supply system install disks. From
> my
> experience with XP system recovery partition, recovering OS from that
> partition does not necessarily goes nicely. I know several cases when
> people
> had to format the whole disk and install OS anew, using installation XP
> and
> even w2k disks from thrown away old computers. This might be illegal but
> getting help from MS is hopeless - they always say this is a hardware
> fault - if you somehow manage to talk to them which is a challenge per ce.
>[/color]


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