i'll run 8 when they pry XP from my cold dead fingers...
Posted on 06/15/2013 10:29:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft was hoping Windows 8 would be such a hit with enterprises that they'd stop using Windows XP, an aging operating system that debuted in 2001. That hasn't happened, but HP thinks enterprises will have no choice but to upgrade to new PCs when Microsoft stops releasing security fixes for XP next April.
"We think this will bring a big opportunity for HP," Enrique Lore, SVP and GM of HP's business PC unit, said in a press conference Monday on the eve of HP's Discover customer conference, as reported by Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau.
Lore said 40% to 50% of businesses are still using PCs running XP. But HP isn't assuming they'll upgrade to Windows 8 PCs.
John Tomesco, an exec in HP's PC and printers group, told IT World Canada's Nestor Arellano that businesses could choose Windows 7—which he described as "a very popular OS"—or Windows 8, depending on their needs.
Microsoft has been trying to get XP users to upgrade for several years now. But Windows XP still had about 38% of the worldwide PC market in May, according to NetMarketShare.
Enterprises will have to upgrade before next April because that's when Microsoft will stop pluggin security holes in XP. Many will choose Windows 7 because they don't want to train employees to use Microsoft's new Metro interface in Windows 8.
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Or they may just betired enough of microSoft that they buy an Apple or Linux system
i'll run 8 when they pry XP from my cold dead fingers...
That’s what I would do to a company that offers me ‘no choice’ and supper crappy operating systems.
Aleternatively, someone may step up and fill the ‘security window’ hole.
Now I’d really like to see an Apple or Linux desktop take at least 25% of the market. They’ve been talking about this for the longest time... hasn’t happened yet.
XP is so much better and easier to operate next to Vista and Windows 8 that I will keep my XP. It is a Jewell. I would guess that the kids will like Windows 8 because it looks so much like a game and they can’t easily hit the wrong key and mess things up because everything is so hidden.
Screw *nix; if I’m going to switch systems I think I’ll go w/ OpenVMS instead.
Far more likely: businesses will move even more from big PCs and into tablets. A market where HP is weak and blew their shot with their WebOS debacle.
LOL! I have one older LT with “XP”. The other two newer ones came with “7”. I still kind of like the “XP”. Won’t do “8”.
Sometimes one wonders what these people are smoking! Our company moved most people to Windows 7 due to the impending XP support expiration. I just moved off XP this year.
Windows 8 is not designed for desktop users who have work to do. It is slanted toward the media centric, social networking activity of home users. One of my co-workers saw the writing on the wall and purchased 5 copies of Windows 7 in order to avoid being forced to Windows 8 until after 2020.
Even Google threw in the towel on businesses when they renamed their Android application store the “Play Store”.
I am hoping that linux that bridge that last 5% gap in usability that puts MS and other big corporations in a tight spot.
Retraining employees will cost a lot. Most of them will go to win 7.
I like Windows 7. Hate Vista and 8.
I built my first PC in 1982. I am now 65 years old and have never bought a factory built computer for myself.
I have loaded every MS OS since the earliest DOS systems and all the Windows OS’s except Vista (have replaced several of those with XP).
Started using Linux around 1994, an UMSDOS version of Slackware. Upgraded to Mandrake then Redhat in 1995 or 1996. Most recently have been using Xubuntu.
For quite a few years I had 2 PC’s on my desk (XP & Redhat Linux) and access into the AS400 database server in the office. Pulled lots of queries via flat files out of the AS400 and composed a 3000+ page catalog from it. That process was a total hack.
SO, no matter what Microsoft does, I probably will not be a purchaser of their latest OS.
Windows 8 is a natural progression in the post-literate society. We first moved from command line driven operating system shells to visual icon driven programs, where you can’t talk directly to the OS, to where, most of us being illiterate we see nothing but pitchers in Windows 8 tablet interface. progres. Give me the command line.
If you like XP, you will REALLY love *7* !
Good luck. I still have an Xp and 2003 systems and I found emulators to run some of my current hardware.
I’m stuck in the last century.
Heck I even use vmware so I can run 2003 on my current machines.
I hate the new menu interfaces and
HP needs to focus on making printers like they used to. The printers they turn out now is marginally adequate at best.
RE: Give me the command line.
If your’e a Windows User, PowerShell Scripting isn’t going away even with Windows 8.
Then they will hold onto Windows 7 as long as possible once XP is pried out from under their clinging fingers.
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