Besides, Allen Luddite was one of my heroes -- you know, he came up with the Password concept:
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 have very mixed feelings about C# — on the one hand they have tried to clean up the C-language a bit... on the other You can't polish a turd.
On the one hand, Anders Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, & Delphi) shows definite influence on the design(for the good, IMO); on the other there are definite disappointments in regard to parallelism and packages/libraries/modules (I play in Ada for fun; I got spoiled by its nice parallelism and packaging features).
But MS shot themselves in the ass in Windows 8 by abandoning the DOTNET framework — it signals, IMO, that they're ready to abandon it (for the next big thing) leaving everyone who learned it (or really used it) high and dry.
Yes it is.
But I don’t want to pay for 7 or a downgrade to XP.
Vista sucks.
I want out. without the cost or loss of data.
I have already lost my Itunes library and will be damned to lose it again.
I learned my lesson with a HP printer when I needed technical support and got a succession of turkey-gobbling Indians. None were understandable in the least.
That said, why would I replace something that works perfectly, same as my car, my wife, etc. It is gen-x/y/z that MUST have the bleeding edge at all times. I keep what works and what I need.
BTW, I will never buy an HP product ever again.
I'm stealing that!
Yeah, just bought a [supposedly] new copy of XP on eBay for $40 the other night. Will put it on my spare laptop which basically will exist to transmit my weather station data to WeatherUnderground.
I run 7 on my primary laptop, but have not found one single thing about it that I find an improvement over XP. In fact, I really, really hate that there is apparently no file-indexing other than by name.
In many directories, I like to sort by date and it's painful to get a listing. Ditto "All Programs" on the Start Menu. Very annoying lag to list them.
Microsoft has never been a consumer focused company. Rather than try making two decent OS one for ones like you and I who would purchase such an OS they focus on teen-30 something buyers. They also ignore businesses and health care providers who have substancial XP programs running and a change over would be disruptive and very costly in business loss. They I imagine would also pay to keep XP.
XP is a great system and I believe re-licensing would mean huge profits from basic users. But MS is a here it is you'll like our crappy new product or else. MS has never admitted they made a mistake in their OS designs.
In my experience and needs, XP is the best OS since DOS,
Let me decide what multi-media I want to run.
Vista and 7 or 8 assumes what you want.
I’m done with MS trying to “help” me.
Just give something that works.
An OS that is not bound by the protocols.
Anything and everything beyond XP/Dos is about multi-media.
Sold to the consumer or creator as the next best thing.
You're absolutely right... I was just yanking your chain, reminded of the old "OS wars." I had the opportunity to play with Smalltalk some years ago, and the entire thought process in programming was different.
Mark
I use a pc for business. If I want excitement I tell the wife to get me a beer.
If you did that then the Apple OS (or at least the API) might be in Object Pascal [or Ada]. :D
Besides, Allen Luddite was one of my heroes -- you know, he came up with the Password concept:
wouldn't bother me... at least i knew my way around the registry better and what should and should not be running in the task manager
100%
LOLOLO!!!!!!!!!
Irony! (pictures?)
OK then.
I made little sense with that sentence did I. Here’s the ideer again: Computing interfaces have gone in the past 40 years from teletype devices, to text oriented VT terminals, to icon driven visuals on PCs, where the icons still had printed names underneath them, to finally little more than block pictures of Windows 8 and smartphones, their designs reminding one of toddler games, and lastly the 140 character text limit of Twitter.
All of this parallel to the decreasing literacy of the populace. Unrelated? Coincidence?
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