We don’t think Windows 8 is a bad operating system at all. In ways, it’s superior to Windows 7. \u00a0But Windows 8 is the ugly duckling — and many people are avoiding getting a new computer because they don’t want to deal with Windows 8 — because of all the negative publicity. TC thinks Windows 8 was a mistake – all Microsoft needed to do was to make Windows 8 user-configurable enough that users could have chosen the traditional desktop or the touch-screen mode. \u00a0EB thinks it’s great just the way it is. But one thing we both agree on is that it’s not the dog that users and tech writers have made it out to be.<\/p>\n
But PC and laptop sales are the worst in history and PC & laptop makers like HP are trying hard to stimulate sales. HP has found that offering brand new Windows 7 computers is a good way to stimulate sales. But HP is not the only computer manufacturer still offering brand new Windows 7 computers… others like Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus (to name a few) still offer new Windows 7 computers. Tiger Direct has quite a nice selection of new Windows 7 computers.<\/p>\n
Interested? Read on:<\/span><\/p>\n Over the weekend HP\u2019s marketing team unleashed a real humdinger of a campaign. They\u2019re proudly trumpeting the availability of systems running Windows 7 just in case PC buyers can\u2019t stand the thought of Windows 8.<\/p>\n Despite what numerous blogs are reporting, HP is not giving up on Windows 8 and offering fresh Windows 7 configurations for sale. As ZDnet\u2019s Ed Bott notes in a well-researched post, HP has never stopped selling Windows 7 PCs. Major PC OEMs almost never give up on the last-gen Windows OS until they absolutely have to. Machines aimed specifically at consumers may become hard to find, but business configs are generally available for a long time after the new OS launches. Just take a quick look at any online retailer\u2019s website. TigerDirect still has dozens of Windows 7 Home and Pro systems for sale. Some are made by HP, but there are also models from ASUS, iBUYPOWER, Lenovo, and Acer…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Interested? Read the rest of this article here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We don’t think Windows 8 is a bad operating system at all. In ways, it’s superior to Windows 7. \u00a0But Windows 8 is the ugly duckling — and many people are avoiding getting a new computer because they don’t want to deal with Windows 8 — because of all the negative publicity. TC thinks Windows 8 was a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
HP flogs Windows 7 systems because people hate Windows 8 so much<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nWhat they\u2019re doing is the same thing that made-for-TV marketers do. Up next: announcing that you\u2019ll have to act fast because quantities are limited and that they can\u2019t do this all day.<\/p>\n