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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: oh8eleven
However, Win 7 Pro will run older software programs, while Win 8 will not. The only one of my many dozens of programs from XP that wouldn't work with 8 was a time and billing program that I should have updated years ago anyway.
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posted on
01/20/2014 6:13:15 PM PST
by
KevinB
(Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
To: GreyFriar
Yes, very interesting. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:33:41 PM PST
by
zot
To: dangerdoc; ShadowAce
... and thus completes the analogy to the Vista debacle... when the only way they could sell a "Vista" computer was to ALSO supply a "DOWN-GRADE" CD for a free license for Win-XP -- because THAT'S what the customers wanted.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:57:15 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dangerdoc
HP brings back Windows 7 by popular demand Perhaps, but then you're still lumbered with an HP CF.
(sorry if 47 others have already said roughly the same thing)
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:00:32 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: 2harddrive
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Be aware that Microsoft is dropping all support for Windows 7 in 2015, so it won’t be around for long. In a pig's eye.
They will HAVE to support Win7 for the next 5 years or more. Businesses don't just bend over the way Ballmer wants them too.
If Microsoft understood their customers, they wouldn't be in the straits they're in now, watching their markets washing away like sand at high tide in a storm.
Microsoft still thinks they can push their customers around. Ain't happening any more.
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:01:47 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: KevinB
Yeah, you’re right. It’s the rest of the digital world that’s got it wrong.
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posted on
01/21/2014 5:48:08 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
Yeah, you’re right. It’s the rest of the digital world that’s got it wrong. Do you think I'm lying about my relative lack of compatibility issues? I'm not allowed to accurately report my experience in upgrading to Win 8 without being ridiculed?
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posted on
01/21/2014 6:57:24 AM PST
by
KevinB
(Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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