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No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this | 360 comments | Create New Account

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Manufacturing Windows 7 (or XP) machines

Authored by: davecb on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 05:59 PM EDT

I mildly suspect that vendors will end up "petitioning" Microsoft to
keep using 7, the same way they pushed back and kept using XP when vista failed.

--dave

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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this

Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 07:10 PM EDT

>> No one wants Windows 8 <<

Disabling the ability to run older Windows on new machines may be exactly what
MS wants to happen. So far they have lost many more sales of Windows version N
on the desktop to Windows version N-1 than they have lost sales to Linux or even
Mac OS. They have been their own worst competitor. This forces the Windows
upgrade with every new PC. Now to see if it survives the antitrust challenges
that will result.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: tknarr on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 08:56 PM EDT
- No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 10:29 PM EDT
  - No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 12:48 AM EDT
- I don't understand... - Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:06 PM EDT
  - The key must be in the TPM chip - Authored by: kawabago on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:56 PM EDT
    - I still don't understand. - Authored by: Ed L. on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 12:23 AM EDT
      - I still don't understand. - Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 12:27 AM EDT
        Not quite the same - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 07:26 AM EDT
      - RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 03:12 PM EDT
        RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: rcsteiner on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 08:20 PM EDT
        RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 10:10 PM EDT
        RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: PJ on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 11:18 AM EDT
        RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 02:44 PM EDT
        RE: I still don't understand. - Authored by: tknarr on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 12:35 PM EDT
        there is an alternate explanation .... - Authored by: nsomos on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 02:37 PM EDT
  - I don't understand... - Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 12:24 AM EDT
    - I don't understand... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:45 PM EDT
- So far I think it's only ARM - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 12:20 PM EDT
No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 10:27 AM EDT
- No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 08:29 PM EDT
  - No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this - Authored by: greed on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 07:48 PM EDT
We are coming to the end of the Windows PC - Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:50 PM EDT

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