Bowing to customer demand for Windows XP operating system, leading computer maker Dell Inc. has announced that it will be bringing back the OS onto its systems. After Microsoft released Vista earlier this year, Dell had almost entirely shifted its PCs to the new OS.
However customers were apparently not satisfied with having no say in the matter and on Dell's Ideas in Action page, they requested for a return to the XP days. "We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell said on its Ideas in Action page.
Earlier this year Tom West, director of small business marketing at Dell had said in a blog post that the company would not be offering the older versions of Windows OS to consumers. "Dell does not have plans to launch Windows XP for home users as the preference and demand is for the 'latest and greatest' technology which includes Windows Vista," he had written.
However the Windows XP option is open only to Dell's US customers, it is reported.
Analysts said Dell's move might hamper Vista's acceptance. However Samir Bhavnani, research director at Current Analysis said most demand for XP was from small businesses. "They know that XP works," Bhavnani stressed. "It's not that they don't want to upgrade to Vista. They just don't want to upgrade to Vista yet."
