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Dell Ending Windows XP Option
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) is ending the operating system Windows XP as an option starting at the beginning of this month. This is Dell’s way of working with Microsoft to phase out the older operating system. Microsoft said this past June that they will be preventing OEMs from pre-installing Windows XP on October 22. Customers will still have multiple options of buying XP though.
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Windows XP Errors Sounds Uncomfortably Harmonious [VIDEO]
If the viruses on your Windows XP computer decides to have a party, I have a feeling that this is what it would be like. Check out the video below. [BuzzFeed]
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Four Chinese People Sent To Prison For Selling Illegal Windows XP Copies
Four individuals in China have been placed in prison for four years and was told to pay about $1.6 million in fines for selling illegal copies of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. “It shows the government is really taking action,” stated Microsoft China VP Liu Fengming.
Hong Lei and Sun Xiansheng were among those that were charged. These two ran a business called Tomato Garden which sold the illegal copies of XP. Hong and Sun were both charged $146,000 each and the two others in the case were charged $14,600 each.
The Huqin District People’s Court in Suzhou also charged Tomato Garden about $1.3 million and confiscated about $439,000 of their revenue.
Windows Vista Doesn’t Mess With Texas
The state Senate of Texas yesterday gave approval to a state budget which includes excluding Windows Vista from being installed on the computers of government agencies without the consent of legislature.
Senator Juan Hinojosa proposed the exclusion because “of the many reports of problems with Vista.”
“We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this particular [operating] system are known nationwide,” stated Hinojosa. Hinojosa is a Democrat from McAllen, Texas and he is the Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee. “And the XP operating system is working very well.”
[via ComputerWorld]