Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

[Dan Jenkins]

Greg Rundlett wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost. I've noticed many vendors offering a Windows XP "downgrade" for an additional fee. I just ordered a Lenovo notebook, and they do that. I don't know what to say about paying not to get something other than it sounds like a mafia racket. /me shakes head. If I were going to actually run Windows, then I'd probably pay extra for the XP option Microsoft's licensing for Vista Business allows you to downgrade it to Windows XP. In fact, it is the only way to officially buy Windows XP on most computers. You can't buy XP from Microsoft (they sell you a Vista Business license instead) or from most (all?) retail channels. So, you have to pay a premium to upgrade to Vista Business, so you can downgrade to Windows XP. I recently bought some Windows XP laptops which came with Vista Business stickers. Presumably all this downgrading counts as a Vista sale to Microsoft, even though it is not being used as Vista.

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