"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:u3kQqno%23JHA.4900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "aa" <a@microsoft.ru> wrote in message
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>>> 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.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Neither HP nor Microsoft is under any obligation to provide you with[/color]
>> another[color=darkred]
>>> 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.
>>[color=darkred]
>>>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.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> If there is a system recovery partition or system install disks that[/color]
>> came with[color=darkred]
>>> 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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> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
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