I suspect a different level of service packs or
many other variables.

XP remains XP, even though there are SEVERAL
different versions from MS.


Lee Michaels wrote:
"mac davis" wrote
OH.. now that we have 2 vista machines, one for home and one for our
karaoke
gig, (our karaoke software kicks ass on Vista), Gateway is now offering a
"downgrade" to XP on new machines..

Be warned.

I needed XP to run my software, so I "downgraded". The downgraded XP does
not run as well as the original XP.