HP to prominently sell PCs with Windows 7, with the OS 'back by popular demand'

ouch for ms.

kinda surreal isnt it?

It's MS stinker for sure. HP has some balls being so in their face about it though. I remember back when MS could give a brand some grief for stepping out of line.

I'll take a few.

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to do this.

Originally posted by Azuran:

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I'm surprised it took this long for someone to do this.

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The fact that this has to be re-announced or even brought to any attention is sad. Windows 8 was NEVER a viable 'desktop' replacement! Windows 7 should have NEVER BEEN pulled from being an option for new PCs.

Windows 9 announced in April though!

Windows 7 is going to have a long life span like XP did. Why? Because it just works.

And who is the genius that got rid of the Start Menu? SMH

SProdigy, not genius but village idiot.

Originally posted by ddp:

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SProdigy, not genius but village idiot.

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Originally posted by dEwMe:

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It's MS stinker for sure. HP has some balls being so in their face about it though. I remember back when MS could give a brand some grief for stepping out of line.

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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:

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Originally posted by dEwMe:

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It's MS stinker for sure. HP has some balls being so in their face about it though. I remember back when MS could give a brand some grief for stepping out of line.

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MS isn't as bad an Intel, though...paying makers (like Dell) to only use their CPUs, telling retailers to put all AMD-based computers 'in back' and inform customers that they have compatibility issues (if not also trying to pay them not to carry AMD-based computers entirely), and ridiculing AMD's 64-bit CPUs until they had their own consumer 64-bit CPUs ready.

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HP has been really great since 1939. Go Meg!

1939?

Originally posted by ddp:

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1939?

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Originally posted by 2oldGeek:

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Originally posted by ddp:

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1939?

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Bill Hewlett [8] and Dave Packard graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1935. The company originated in a garage in nearby Palo Alto during a fellowship they had with a past professor, Frederick Terman at Stanford during the Great Depression. Terman was considered a mentor to them in forming Hewlett-Packard.[9] In 1939, Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital investment of US$538.[10] Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.[11] HP incorporated on August 18, 1947, and went public on November 6, 1957.

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Originally posted by aldan:

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wouldve figured you would know this,having been around at the time and all.LOL

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Thats cowboy pilgrim.

No, when cowboys die they don't go to heaven - they go to Dallas...

I think Micro$oft missed the mark by not providing their customer base with choice. While the Metro interface can be easy to use, it is a radical change from their earlier versions of the OS. This radical change created a very steep learning curve. They would have been better off keeping the Start button, and slowly introducing the Metro interface. Allowing users to try it on their own could have resulted in more buy-in and acceptance from their user base. It could have resulted in a "wow factor". But by forcing it, all they created was a significant amount of resentment, as users asked "How the hell do I 'X' out of this damn thing?"