From: Gary Britt 

Can you buy a downgrade to XP or Win2K they way you could buy a downgrade
to Win2K when XP came out.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> Yeah I can explain it. In November I ordered a new laptop for my wife,
> it comes with XP, it was supposed to ship before christmas. I cancelled
> the order yesterday because it still hasn't been delivered (ordered from
> amazon). But they do have the vista version in stock and ready for
> delivery. I'm sitting here today deciding if I want to take that instead.
>
> Vista is selling because you have no choice, you want a new computer you
> get vista or no computer at all. Sales are hot because they stopped
> shipping XP in November and all the backorders are converting to vista.
> I have no doubt this was planned.
>
> Geo.
>
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:budus2d8r0grat4iotsks2dv2g27r8reur{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070209/tc_afp/usitsoftwareretail
>>
>> ===
>> SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new
>> operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying
>> the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5