Analysis - Channel speaks out on Windows XP Home

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Members of the Brigantia indie PC retailer community speak out in support for request for XP home to remain available.

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[Andaho]

I think Microsoft should release a new light weight version of XP Home with no visual features such as shadows, fading menus and animations. It could be called XP Light or something similar.

It would be perfect for the new growing trend of low-power UMPCs, and low-power desktops or HTPCs too!

To narrow the intended use of it, they could also limit features such as workgroup file and printer sharing... they could limit it to only 1 workgroup connection instead of 10... that would put off small businesses from buying up loads of the cheap licences...

I would think a price in the range of £10-20 would stamp piracy figures down to a fraction...

There will always be people that will like pretty looks and animations, so there will still be a huge market for Vista! (that's why I suggest they take out visual features in my vision of XP light).

[amwhite2008]

£10-£20 is better for MS then letting people to to Linux as well - Back in the old days they let it go for pence in some cases, thats what they should be doing with XP now IMO.

Alex

[leexgx]

or just buy an linux dell PC and use and use an purple Dell XP Sp2 install disk as thay do not need an key to install (As long as the PC is An Dell pc only if not the disk will ask for an key or will not even start the disk depending on the purple CD XP disk it is)

i had to do the above as Vista was intermittently refusing connections to it, for printer shareing so i had to give up and put Dell XP on it, the other one i left Vista on it as that had no printers pluged into it (the Dell pc came with Out of date drivers even Aero did not work as thay used 8.1 drivers that was incompatible with Vista SP1)

Vista networking is like WinME, very poor unless your conencting to an other pc its just the other way round it is not

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Originally Posted by leexgx

or just buy an linux dell PC and use and use an purple Dell XP Sp2 install disk as thay do not need an key to install (As long as the PC is An Dell pc only if not the disk will ask for an key or will not even start the disk depending on the purple CD XP disk it is)

i had to do the above as Vista was intermittently refusing connections to it, for printer shareing so i had to give up and put Dell XP on it, the other one i left Vista on it as that had no printers pluged into it (the Dell pc came with Out of date drivers even Aero did not work as thay used 8.1 drivers that was incompatible with Vista SP1)

Despite that all being illegal what you've mentioned? A copy of Windows is a license to be installed on one machine and in the case of OEM not to be transferred from one machine to another!