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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I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.
Do you see the POST screen?
As someone else mentioned, you may need a boot disk (assuming your system can still boot from an optical drive, and the BIOS boot-sequence will allow it). A Puppy Linux live CD or the System Rescue CD might be of use.
XP is what an OS, by definition should be.
Let me decide what bells and whistles I want.
I don’t need Mister Softy or Apple telling me or assuming what my intentions are.
I never came across an actual PC release — though there is this sourceforge project (documentation).
Well, it isn’t going to happen with Linux, because the “unix on the desktop” got a UI that works.
The Apple UI.
Why would I run Linux on my desktop when I have something that looks and smells like BSD Unix lurking behind the slick, consistent Apple UI?
XP has been driving this computer and my business forever, and I have no intention of switching.
I would “upgrade” to a better version of ***exactly the same thing*** in a heartbeat.
Hello?
Microsoft? Anybody home?
Then you can have that data available no matter what option you choose for a new system, or fix what ya got!
Went on afterward and CAREFULLY cleaned the memory card contacts (2 mem boards), no reports of trouble since.
Original symptom, it would hang on boot up, wouldn't get to Win start up screen, Hd would stop spinning (Win 7 OS).
OK, So, I fired this POS up for the first time in months.
I get no video image, Nothing.
I hear about 3 to 5 seconds of a hard drive spinning up and it stops.
I get blinking lights from the “Caps lock” and “drive working” with no spin of the hard drive.
Keep in mind this just happened out of the blue.
If I got a boot disc, I’m not even certain that it will pick it up.
LOLOL, I think it's that stinking little *paper clip* from years ago that embedded itself and took over their business :)
It is interesting sometimes how often a software problem turns out to be a hardware problem.
Then you’d be switching chip architectures, because I know of no plans to port VMS to the i32 or i64 architecture.
About the only fast way to get there (as far as I can see), would be a VM that emulates the Alpha or Itanium instruction set on i64.
The biggest barriers, IMO, to porting VMS to the i64 would be the lack of the Bliss compiler for your target architecture. You could write a program to translate the Macro stuff over, but all that Bliss-32 code... woof. That’s a huge undertaking.
Yeah, if your ‘work’ consists of playing angry birds.
Win 7 is an excellent platforum and OS.
Sometimes I just think she's messing with my mind when she tells me "she told me this or that already" or she's the one that's really slipping :)
What doesn’t 7 do for you? Have you tried it? It’s a great OS.
That’s what 7 *is*.
Umm, no, no they aren’t.
You can also download Classic Shell and you never have to see the Metro UI again.
It might be acceptable for home users but I’m not moving an enterprise with 1800 users to 8. We’ll stay at 7 as that was painful enough for them.
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