It turns out some people don't want Windows Vista with their new PCs. And that means Dell has been forced to start selling Windows XP again. The company had stopped supplying the older operating system in January, making Vista the only choice for most customers.

But in response to petitions on a forum on its website, Dell, which is the second-largest PC seller in the world, is going to return to supplying Windows XP with its new PCs, if that's what a customer wants. It's not going to last too long, though: Microsoft recently announced that from February 2008, it will stop selling the OEM licenses that PC makers use to install Windows, meaning that Vista will, again, be the only option.