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The tech industry will soon find out whether Windows XP will encourage wary consumers to spend their money on new systems for home and office. On Monday, PC makers including Compaq Computer, Dell ...

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today. Consumers ...

Dell Inc. yesterday bowed to pressure from customers and dumped its Vista-only policy for consumer PCs by adding Windows XP as an operating option on half a dozen machines. Dell now offers Windows XP ...

After pulling XP from its desktop and laptop lines, Dell changed its mind and announced that it would offer it on new Inspiron 1405, 1705, 1505 and 1501 notebooks, and Dimension E520 and E521 desktops ...

Dell installed so much junk on the laptop I just got that I have decided to erase the whole deal and start clean with the included winows xp cd. Everytime I start the instalation it cant install ...

It seems the choices are getting less and less for the option of XP installed on a new laptop from Dell, I check the site regularly, the last time I checked, the XP option was only available on the ...

We all knew that this day would come - and some hoped that it would come sooner, rather than later - but in approximately six weeks, OEMs will no longer be able to ship computers preinstalled with ...

With Windows 7, doing well on the market we all knew that the day was coming when XP would be killed off permanently by major OEMS and Microsoft. That day is coming very soon and Dell is talking about ...

Windows XP isn't disappearing entirely, but it'll be a lot harder to get it on a new PC If you’re determined to have one final fling with a factory-installed version of Windows XP on a new PC, place ...