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 7which 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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It’s funny how Mister softy finally built something that actually works !!!
And, abandoned it for what “they” thought people wanted.
Neighbor had an Acer with similar issues, ended being a hardware problem(bad GPU/motherboard).
I will never buy a Windows machine again.
I have an old Power Mac that has run nearly flawlessly for me. Unfortunately Apple no longer supports the OS and because it is a IBM mother board I can not upgrade the OS.
So I have told the wife that in the near future we will be getting a new Apple. Probably a Mac-Mini. I just cant justify the cost of a Mac Pro
I recently rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I am very pleased with its stability and features and won’t be missing Windows XP. I have tried Windows 8 and find the learning curve quite high. Things are very different than previous versions of Windows and I will not be in any hurry to upgrade to Windows 8.
Really - REALLY! OpenVMS was killed last week! I guess you missed it’s obituary!
I’ve been using my Dell w/ XP for - I dunno - 8 years? At least?
It’s going nowhere.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Just install Linux ,there are some amazing ones out there
Same here. I've been buying boxes, and all 'puter innards since they became available. Oh, wait, I did buy (at awful high prices) one of the first rat-shacks to hit the market.
But after that, it has always been cheaper to build my own box, putting in the best available, often far better than name-brands.
But, I soon found that in order to help others with their machines I needed to know about the MS op-systems, so began to buy and install those, at exorbitant prices.
Now I've quit doing that - was bad enough.
If Microsoft was smart they would release a super-fixed, super-SECURE, super ...whatever... version of the exact same XP they sold a decade ago. Sell it to oldsters like me. Tons and tons of them.
Sell the latest gadgety kid’s thing to the kids.
Microsoft CAN have two products at once, I believe.
OpenVMS? Is EDT still available for PCs? I had a copy years ago. It was a real timesaver in many ways with the control K feature.
The issue is not the individual unit merits.
It is the value in bulk.
20 employees with 20 xp boxes
vs
10 employees with 10 win8 boxes
= same amount of production.
I have no reason to change or upgrade.
especially with idiot companies like adobe pushing subscription bs.
You fail to realize the depth of my hatred of *nix.
I always feel like the "OS" is "out to get me" (or at least make life difficult) — I loathe the C philosophy it's built on, too. (No, everything is not a stream of bytes... and whose idea was it to have shit like joysticks [dev/js0] be on the filesystem!?)
You will be quite happy with the MacMini. It’s a fine machine for home. Don’t hesitate on pulling the trigger — you’ll be glad you did.
I was really reluctant to buy an HP machine in the first place, but the price was right.
HP/Compac, crap. Nothing but problems, and I’ve owned many of them.
I’ve got an HP DV-7-1245DX.
Lost my touch pad early on, later lost the keyboard, and had to remove the battery constantly to get it to work. I resigned myself to using a USB mouse and keyboard in order to use the POS.
I’d like to restore this machine because it has a lot of stuff I don’t want to lose.
If only they would!
I use XP and my wife uses Win 7.
I do like Win7 some, but XP is just a lot slicker, logical, faster, etc, etc to me for what I use a computer for.
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