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Windows 8 - Anyone Using It

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gmen6981 said:
Too lazy to search for a link right now, but I read an article yesterday (on CNET I believe) That HP was going to start shipping new computers with Windows 7 again due to complaints about Windows 8 and 8.1. Curious to see how that effects sales.
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Well in a corporate environment I imagine it'll help. I know at my company we get new HP devices with Windows 8 and we downgrade them to Windows 7 but we had to sign/buy a licensing agreement with Microsoft to downgrade them.
 
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Magua said:
Well in a corporate environment I imagine it'll help. I know at my company we get new HP devices with Windows 8 and we downgrade them to Windows 7 but we had to sign/buy a licensing agreement with Microsoft to downgrade them.
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Company I work or that does support for another company did the same thing. Would ship a windows 7 laptop with XP until 7 was fully compatable.
 
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DoctorWho said:
Company I work or that does support for another company did the same thing. Would ship a windows 7 laptop with XP until 7 was fully compatable.
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Oh yeah we still have one area that has software that's only compatible with Windows XP so we still have to deploy XP on their devices. I work in healthcare IT and so trying to get probably well over 100 applications simultaneously compatible and on the same page is never easy. Luckily this one area has a system upgrade coming so their primary application is Windows 7 compatible and then I think we're all good before the April deadline. 1800 PC's in our environment need upgraded from XP to Windows 7 still before that EOL deadline for XP.
 
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Magua said:
Oh yeah we still have one area that has software that's only compatible with Windows XP so we still have to deploy XP on their devices. I work in healthcare IT and so trying to get probably well over 100 applications simultaneously compatible and on the same page is never easy. Luckily this one area has a system upgrade coming so their primary application is Windows 7 compatible and then I think we're all good before the April deadline. 1800 PC's in our environment need upgraded from XP to Windows 7 still before that EOL deadline for XP.
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We still get people that have XP, so I'm not thrilled with April approaching. It has to be done, but it's going to be a headache.
 
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