called dell today to understand why my upgrade cd kit with a ship date of 7/28 still hasn't arrived.

the answer i received after waiting for ~20 min was that wm2k3 doesn't work due to msft problems and (a) dell wasn't shipping out the kit until msft fixed the problem, and (b) no, they couldn't give me a swag on when i should expect the kit.

besides a big WTF , this doesn't jive with the rest of the posts here...anyone getting delays and the same spin?

It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you do know that just ain't so.

Yes everyone is in the same boat

In a nutshell...

Dell posted the upgrade fix on a foreign site for those who already had 2003 and several did download it, but the installer was corrupt and only about 65% of those were sucessful.

Also, some wm 2002 owners were able to hack the upgrade and install 2003 to their axims w/o paying for the upgrade. So Dell pulled the download off the site and you must wait for the CD like everyone else.

I thought I saw some posts here that a couple people had gotten the upgrade CD?!?

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I think some people in the UK or Germany have, but not in the US yet


Now people have been getting their new axims with the upgrade installed after a long wait in the US...maybe that's what you read.

Well they said my cd shipped out thursday and i was expecting it today since everything else ive ordered from them got to me in 3 days, but it still has another 2 days by the 5 day shipping thing. Wait actually todays the fourth day, it better come tomorrow.

Anyway, im in the u.s. and i was told (on the order page) that my upgrade CD WAS shipped, and is in the 'in transit' stage, but since they havnt given me so much as a tracking number. Im still hopeful its on the way though.

Dell Axim X5 Advanced w/ pxa 255
256 mb Lexar SD card
256 mb Simpletech CF card
Rhinoskin Aluminum hard case

Let's find out

I'm going to start a new thread with a different name

If a Moderator wants to help me out by merging the threads that would be great. I'm not sure that is possible unless you are a Mod.

I'll call it ....Has anyone recieved their WM2K3 Upgrade CD?