HARDWARE MAKER Dell said that it will start offering Windows XP on its products despite the wish of Microsoft for the outfit to just flog Vista.

Dell switched nearly entirely to Vista-based systems in January, but it has been finding that its customers have walloping the outfit's online suggestion box IdeaStorm asking for XP to be bought back.

According to the IdeaStorm page Dell has heard the message "loud and clear" and will be bringing the Windows XP option back to its Dell consumer PC offerings.

Hewlett-Packard, CompUSA, and Lenovo are still flogging XP on some machines.

Dell is only offering XP Home and Professional as options on four Inspiron laptop models and two Dimension desktops.

However the move is bad news for Vole, which wants people to move away from XP and buy Vista as soon as possible. Microsoft was expecting that people who were planning to buy a new PC would go for Vista, it appears that there is a hard core that do'nt want to touch it.

A spokesVole was not phased. He told news.com that it was only a small minority of users who wanted XP, the vast majority wanted Vista.

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