{"id":30,"date":"2008-06-28T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/28\/what-can-you-add-on-top-of-vista-ultimate-to-make-it-better"},"modified":"2008-06-28T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T12:23:30","slug":"what-can-you-add-on-top-of-vista-ultimate-to-make-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"What can you add on top of Vista Ultimate to make it better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!360\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>I was just perusing the Dell web site to get a sense of how much a high end box from them would cost (as opposed to building one myself).\u00a0 While pricing things out, I noticed that the XPS series of systems come with &quot;Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus&quot;.\u00a0 Hmmm, out of the roughly 73 versions of Vista out there, I don&#8217;t recall a Bonus edition, so I decided to spend another second to find out what that meant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blufiles.storage.msn.com\/y1p2CLf5yPBn1_n4cxrePkdI6HGkv5TyrWbq7auE_rNZ2Ekbt1sGhOtqcjAniqN4dG1?PARTNER=WRITER\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blufiles.storage.msn.com\/y1pGMj8OhM6GiEx2jBt5_3BkkzVAHflFu0GNrEaIO1Zd5sR1HstlzNbPa2cq-gjq1T6?PARTNER=WRITER\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yup, Bonus means that Windows XP Pro is installed, not Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I think that says quite a bit about the view that people are taking about Vista. Much of it isn&#8217;t warranted, but our <a href=\"http:\/\/notclever.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!E4092A968B7C1A54!342.entry\">own experience<\/a> says that there are still issues out there.\u00a0 Microsoft has decided to plow ahead and discontinue XP (and I would too in their position), but obviously a few companies are finding ways around that (until MS closes that door too).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just perusing the Dell web site to get a sense of how much a high end box from them would cost (as opposed to building one myself).\u00a0 While pricing things out, I noticed that the XPS series of systems come with &quot;Windows Vista Ultimate Bonus&quot;.\u00a0 Hmmm, out of the roughly 73 versions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}