Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-09 Thread John Mullan
Elitebook and Probook are available. jm -Original Message- From: Daniel J. Matyola Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:32 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's Microsoft never fails. My partner is looking for a new PC. It is impossible to find

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Sharpe
At 9:04 AM -0500 3/9/13, John Mullan wrote: Computers sold into the Enterprise or business world are available with Win7 Pro installed because big business tends to be late adopters of new operating system technology. Look at places like http://www.bestbuybusiness.com which is business facing

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-09 Thread John Mullan
Message- From: Steve Sharpe Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 9:37 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's At 9:04 AM -0500 3/9/13, John Mullan wrote: Computers sold into the Enterprise or business world are available with Win7 Pro installed because big

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-08 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Mar 7, 2013, at 21:23 , David Mann wrote: On Mar 8, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: Windows 8 is extremely profitable for Apple. Fixed that for you ;) Cheers, Dave Fixed THAT for you ;) Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Microsoft never fails. My partner is looking for a new PC. It is impossible to find one without Windows 8. Take it o9r leave it. Microsoft forces the PC manufacturers to sell new computers only with Windows 8, and most PC users lack the time and information to do anything byt accept what they

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: My partner is looking for a new PC. It is impossible to find one without Windows 8. Take it o9r leave it. Microsoft forces the PC manufacturers to sell new computers only with Windows 8, and most PC users lack the time and information to do

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Bill
On 07/03/2013 10:21 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: My partner is looking for a new PC. It is impossible to find one without Windows 8. Take it o9r leave it. Microsoft forces the PC manufacturers to sell new computers only with Windows 8, and most PC

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
We were previously advised that Home Premium Windows 7 does not work well in an office environment, and apparently is not fully compatible with the network we are using. In any event, both our consultant and Dell are showing us only Windows 8 machines. Dan Matyola

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Bill
On 07/03/2013 10:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: We were previously advised that Home Premium Windows 7 does not work well in an office environment, and apparently is not fully compatible with the network we are using. In any event, both our consultant and Dell are showing us only Windows 8

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks. Others have recommended the shell. I would do that in a New York Minute, but my partner is less inclined to modify what he is sold. I will have to work on him. G I am sticking with Windows 7 on my work desktop, although I prefer to use my Mac machines when I can. Dan Matyola

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Bill
On 07/03/2013 11:47 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Thanks. Others have recommended the shell. I would do that in a New York Minute, but my partner is less inclined to modify what he is sold. I will have to work on him. G I am sticking with Windows 7 on my work desktop, although I prefer to use

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread John Francis
It's still possible to buy Windows 7 machines, but it's a bit more difficult. It depends on just what you want to buy. The latest Ultrabooks, for example, are very difficult to find with anything except Windows 8. That includes Dell's XPS 13. The current model, with 1920x1080 resolution, only

RE: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker Some Thursday schadenfreude: Numbers are in and Windows 8 is looking like an epic fail. But we here at the PDML test center knew that already. :) http://www.zdnet.com/five-reasons-why-windows-8-has-failed-712104/ I don't know why he's soft-peddling it. -- PDML

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread John Sessoms
I'm pretty sure you can still get Windoze7 from Newegg, Tiger Direct, etc. so you can build your own. From: Daniel J. Matyola Microsoft never fails. My partner is looking for a new PC. It is impossible to find one without Windows 8. Take it o9r leave it. Microsoft forces the PC

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Bruce Walker
I was going to suggest that, but I wonder if there will be an issue with newer machines needing drivers and kernel code that is only provided by Win8? Dell et al may have been making OS support assumptions in their latest designs. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:45 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread Rob Studdert
On 8 March 2013 02:20, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Some Thursday schadenfreude: Numbers are in and Windows 8 is looking like an epic fail. But we here at the PDML test center knew that already. :) http://www.zdnet.com/five-reasons-why-windows-8-has-failed-712104/ No

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Daniel J. Matyola We were previously advised that Home Premium Windows 7 does not work well in an office environment, and apparently is not fully compatible with the network we are using. In any event, both our consultant and Dell are showing us only Windows 8 machines. Dan Matyola I'd

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread John Sessoms
It may be a problem buying from Dell, HP, etc, but my experience so far with buying parts building my own computers is the parts supplier provides backwards compatible drivers for at least a couple of Windoze iterations. When I built my new computer last year all of the hardware

Re: OT - Win8 adoption rate is below Vista's

2013-03-07 Thread David Mann
On Mar 8, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: Windows 8 will be extremely profitable for Apple. Fixed that for you ;) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please