Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers 434
An alert reader named michael pointed out this article running at Infoworld on the policy instated by HP of supplying actual Windows XP backup media for their Pavilion only if owners really, really need them. While HP and other vendors have been moving to recovery partitions for a little while, it seems like HP customers have to jump through particular hoops to demonstrate they really need physical media, and aren't very happy about it. The article makes a good point too regarding the installation of Linux partitions. The banner ad on the page is for --guess what? -- Windows XP.
Need CDS? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Long overdue (Score:4, Funny)
I would never admit that.
Re:Long overdue (Score:4, Funny)
Anything as long as it's not a Packard Bell.