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HP brings back Windows 7 by popular demand
The Verge ^ | 1/20/14 | Tom Warren

Posted on 01/20/2014 12:35:23 PM PST by dangerdoc

HP really wants people to buy a Windows 7 PC instead of a Windows 8 machine. The PC maker has been emailing customers over the weekend noting that "Windows 7 is back." A new promotion, designed to entice people to select Windows 7 over Windows 8 with $150 of "savings," has launched on HP’s website with a "back by popular demand" slogan. The move is clearly designed to position Windows 7 over Microsoft’s touch-centric Windows 8 operating system.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hp; microsoft; windows7; windows8; windowsxp; xp
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To: UB355

Your comment is irrelevant.

The issue was people falsely propagating a myth that Win 8.1 cannot run old programs.

My experience indicates Win 8.1 DOES indeed run older programs such as 2003 Office/Outlook that I was running on Win7.


41 posted on 01/20/2014 3:35:53 PM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: dangerdoc; zot; SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times

yep, verrrrrry interrrressstingggg


42 posted on 01/20/2014 3:44:48 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: dangerdoc

I upgraded to 8 about 2 months ago, and have actually come to like it. Very stable. It just takes some getting used to. But I would never go back.


43 posted on 01/20/2014 3:56:09 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mount Athos

How do I install classic shell? I have a computer with 7, but this windows 8 is freakin awful.


44 posted on 01/20/2014 4:02:09 PM PST by dforest
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To: Vaquero

If you have a license for Win8, I believe you already have the right to “downgrade” it to 7, whether HP will do anything for you or not. So IOW, you already have a license, you just need to find some Win7 install media somewhere.


45 posted on 01/20/2014 4:02:33 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: dforest

http://www.classicshell.net/


46 posted on 01/20/2014 4:04:45 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dangerdoc

Bookmarked.


47 posted on 01/20/2014 4:08:04 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: clbiel

Shoot, I liked Word for DOS better than the alternatives (primarily Word Perfect). Winword is...OK, relative to the alternatives, but not impressively good like Word for DOS was.


48 posted on 01/20/2014 4:08:32 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Word for DOS

Still sounds funny to me.


49 posted on 01/20/2014 4:12:43 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

Or as we liked to call it at the time “Word for DOGS”, replace by “Word for Widows”!


50 posted on 01/20/2014 4:13:32 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Mount Athos
It takes 2 minutes to install “classic shell” on windows 8, which bypasses metro on start and gives you a windows 7 interface.

What is the substantive difference between Windows 7 and the classic-shell version of Windows 8?

51 posted on 01/20/2014 4:16:09 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Still Thinking

There are some alternatives to the Microsoft stuff these days, LibreOffice does about 99%+ what MS Word can do I think.


52 posted on 01/20/2014 4:16:18 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Windows 7 does not constantly ask you to upload your very soul to the cloud.

I mean, from what I gather by reading these threads.


53 posted on 01/20/2014 4:18:06 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

Yeah, it’s OK, except for that stupid combination recent file list (like if Word, Excel, Access, etc., shared a recent file list). Unfortunately, there are a couple critical things it’s missing that I need, more in Calc vs. Excel than in WP app. One thing that’s is missing in the word processor though, is the ability to search for formatting characters in Word. Like search for for ‘^t’ to find tabs or ‘^p’ to find paragraph marks. The Windows office suite field is OK. They’re all decent, but no standouts, OO and Office included. Fortunately I don’t have to do most of my work in those type apps.


54 posted on 01/20/2014 4:20:42 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Last time I needed it, OpenOffice did not do interactive forms very well (or at all). “Fill in the blanks” kind of thing.


55 posted on 01/20/2014 4:21:58 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dangerdoc
My solution is a dual boot system with KUBUNTU & Windows XP Pro. I have been spending more and more time on the Linux side. XP can die slowly as I slowly give up on Windows.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

56 posted on 01/20/2014 4:27:38 PM PST by Varmint Al
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To: newfreep
My point was old, 2003 programs installed & operate perfectly on Win8.1
Well, my point was that it's not surprising that 2003 MICROSOFT programs installed & operated perfectly on Win8.1 because it's a MICROSOFT OS.
57 posted on 01/20/2014 4:57:43 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Stentor

ahhh, thanks, didn’t know how to turn that off.


58 posted on 01/20/2014 5:16:39 PM PST by dangerdoc (I don't think you should be forced to make the same decision I did even if I know I'm right.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

I use Start 8, it actually looks and acts very much like Win 7.

Although, I’m missing Media Center.


59 posted on 01/20/2014 5:24:20 PM PST by dangerdoc (I don't think you should be forced to make the same decision I did even if I know I'm right.)
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To: Mount Athos
It takes 2 minutes to install “classic shell” on windows 8, which bypasses metro on start and gives you a windows 7 interface.

That eliminates any reason I can see for preferring windows 7 over 8.

Agreed. Windows 8 is more robust than 7 and boots significantly faster. I just moved all my XP machines to 8 and am quite pleased.

60 posted on 01/20/2014 6:11:12 PM PST by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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