Or to put the problem the correct way round...

Or to put the problem the correct way round... we're no longer buying Acer laptops in the price range and specifications we previously bought in, because Acer have dropped their Windows XP Pro systems and are foisting Vista on them instead.

As a result, we're buying laptops from other manufacturers who are doing what the customer (especially business customers) want - Windows XP Pro.

Quite how this is the fault of MS for not pushing Vista hard enough, well that's for the department of marketing, lies and statistics to come up with an excuse.