Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
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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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.
yep, verrrrrry interrrressstingggg
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.
How do I install classic shell? I have a computer with 7, but this windows 8 is freakin awful.
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.
Bookmarked.
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.
Word for DOS
Still sounds funny to me.
Or as we liked to call it at the time “Word for DOGS”, replace by “Word for Widows”!
What is the substantive difference between Windows 7 and the classic-shell version of Windows 8?
There are some alternatives to the Microsoft stuff these days, LibreOffice does about 99%+ what MS Word can do I think.
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.
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.
Last time I needed it, OpenOffice did not do interactive forms very well (or at all). “Fill in the blanks” kind of thing.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
ahhh, thanks, didn’t know how to turn that off.
I use Start 8, it actually looks and acts very much like Win 7.
Although, I’m missing Media Center.
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.
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