Dell is actively promoting a Microsoft licensing loophole to channel partners eager to keep selling PCs installed with Windows XP, after Microsoft's official cut off.

The Dell channel blog is pointing resellers to the loophole in the Windows Vista license that enables business customers to downgrade from the unwanted Windows Vista to its dated, but comfortable and better-supported predecessor.

Lots of people are focused on the retirement of Microsoft Founder Bill Gates this weekend. I mean, yes, the man that created the world's most popular computing platform had his "final day" on Friday, June 27. But, are we forgetting that Microsoft is also saying goodbye to one of its all time favorite operating systems next week and replacing it with Vista, one of the most criticized tech products in its history? Is it a coincidence that Gates retires the Friday before Windows XP gets put on life support?

Intel has decided that it will not upgrade its company's systems to Microsoft Windows Vista, and will instead continue using Windows XP -- reports doing rounds of the Internet seem to suggest.

Microsoft yesterday sent customers a letter reaffirming its plans to kill off Windows XP sales at the end of June and that system builders can continue to ship machines loaded with the OS until early 2009.

That widely-known caveat has been viewed by many as a considerable insurance policy for the software giant, which has failed to achieve sparkling sales of Vista, its upto date operating system.

Indeed many major OEMs including big hitters such as Dell have been clambering to throw customers reluctant to adopt Vista an XP lifeline.

Sometimes, certain situations (like this)really support the fact --> never trust anyone called Gates, who sells you Windows.
After reading Hari-chettan's recent post, here is something that to.. um...inspire(!) you further!

www.humorix.org has some splendid slogans dug from across the world. A few of my favourites:

One day ago we wrote about ways in which Microsoft seems to be discouraging the use of ODF. It’s a must-read for background. We promised some screenshots and we finally have them thanks to Eruaran. Here is the portion of the IRC discussion which explains what you see at the bottom.

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It is already known that Microsoft fought ODF like fire. It even ran a Get the Facts-type campaign against it. It’s easily provable because it is all well documented. In the IRC conversation below (a fragment from Monday), you will find some of the latest examples.

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i never thought the day would come that i, one of the least security-conscious people in the world, would report a Windows security flaw. The fact is - Windows Vista appears to try multiple variants of a password if the first one doesn’t match, at least when it is configured to use multiple keyboard layouts.

Here are the facts:

Computer Economics released a new report characterizing the adoption rate of Windows Vista by businesses as "slow." Using a survey, the research firm found that "most organizations are still not including Vista in their plans for 2008," according to the analyst group's Research Byte announcement.

And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...