Vista Express Upgrade Not On Schedule

February 20, 2007

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Vista Express Upgrade Not On Schedule

There was only one decent reason to buy a PC in the months leading up to the launch of Windows Vista: the Express Upgrade program, which gave buyers of new PCs with Windows XP a free or cheap upgrade to Vista. The "Express" part of the upgrade is Mac vs. PC wars is more of a hardware problem than a software one, with Dell, HP, Sony, Creative, ATI, Nvidia, and hundreds of mom-and-pops pushing out incompatible hardware, bad drivers, awful tech support, and sometimes uninspired design, all of which Apple has a lot more control over.

Windows isn't perfect, but with Vista things are plenty good now. If the cult of Mac is still kicking ass in a year or two, and Microsoft hasn't done anything to screw their momentum up, maybe it'll finally be time for a Microsoft-branded PC, just like they did with the Zune. Microsoft can do the same thing here, taking some of that great Asus hardware, putting some design wizards on the case, and getting some shiny new Windows boxes into stores.

Speaking of the Zune, Microsoft is running a promotion where if you switch your browser homepage to MSN.com, you'll be entered to win a Zune. Or rather, if you claim to have switched your homepage, you can win, it's that easy. Just check out you can go here to see how the five biggest browsers set their home pages.

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