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When Windows XP Goes Away, HP Thinks Businesses Will Start Buying PCs Again
Business Insider ^ | 06/15/2013 | Kevin McLaughlin

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hp; pcs; windowsxp
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To: The KG9 Kid
I’m casually learning C# these days, but I wish that my company took initiatives that would justify me learning it for them rather than for the next place I work. Still need Visual Studio for that I guess...

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.

141 posted on 06/15/2013 2:34:47 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Darksheare

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.


142 posted on 06/15/2013 2:39:07 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Even if I were to buy a new PC (I am not) no way would it be a HP

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.

143 posted on 06/15/2013 2:40:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Darksheare

BTW, I will never buy an HP product ever again.


144 posted on 06/15/2013 2:44:18 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Lancey Howard
MSFT and HP are going over the cliff hand in hand like Thelma and Louise.

I'm stealing that!

145 posted on 06/15/2013 2:50:50 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Zeneta
BTW, you can buy XP really cheap.

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.

146 posted on 06/15/2013 3:31:08 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Don't try to explain yourself to liberals; you're not the jackass-whisperer.)
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To: Lancey Howard
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.

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.

147 posted on 06/15/2013 3:51:03 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: BfloGuy

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.


148 posted on 06/15/2013 4:00:27 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: BfloGuy

Anything and everything beyond XP/Dos is about multi-media.

Sold to the consumer or creator as the next best thing.


149 posted on 06/15/2013 4:08:54 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Then there's interesting (and very different) languages like LISP, FORTH, Prolog, and Ada — which seem to be overlooked in the SW industry because they aren't C-like and the companies want cookie-cutter replacement-employees (meaning they don't want to train them, meaning they want "the most general" programmers out there, meaning they don't pick the best language for the job).

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

150 posted on 06/15/2013 4:09:06 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: The KG9 Kid

I use a pc for business. If I want excitement I tell the wife to get me a beer.


151 posted on 06/15/2013 4:31:56 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: The KG9 Kid
If I had a time machine, I wouldn’t use it to kill Hitler. I’d use it to kill Microsoft and ensure that Apple took over the business computing world back in about 1985.

Okay, /rant off

If you did that then the Apple OS (or at least the API) might be in Object Pascal [or Ada]. :D

152 posted on 06/15/2013 4:41:21 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Revolting cat!
LOL, you've got it wrong, my FRiend .... I'm a command-line jockey going back 25+ years! I'd certainly hope no one takes me for a (hardly "superior") Progressive.

Besides, Allen Luddite was one of my heroes -- you know, he came up with the Password concept:

153 posted on 06/15/2013 4:41:22 PM PDT by mikrofon (Although, he *did* marry Betty White...)
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To: knarf
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
154 posted on 06/15/2013 4:49:12 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Moltke
100%
155 posted on 06/15/2013 4:52:26 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Darksheare
LOLOLO!!!!!!!!!
156 posted on 06/15/2013 4:54:04 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Revolting cat!
most of us being illiterate we see nothing but pitchers in Windows 8 tablet interface

Irony! (pictures?)

157 posted on 06/15/2013 4:59:30 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Many will choose Windows 7 because they don't want to train employees to use Microsoft's new Metro interface in Windows 8."

LOL! And they wonder if the economy is really going to collapse.


158 posted on 06/15/2013 5:03:09 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: mikrofon

OK then.


159 posted on 06/15/2013 5:34:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: hattend

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?


160 posted on 06/15/2013 5:41:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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