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I don't support students, so I don't care, and for those that DO support students, I guess you better just get used to seeing Windows 8. They're not going to know any difference and will buy whatever's on the shelf. And besides, it's just Windows 7 with a different interface. Most of Metro can be disabled to make it look like the non-Aero Win7.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David McFarlane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:30 PM
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OK, but what about all the students who come in with Win8 laptops and such that we will have to support?
-- dkm
At 8/6/2012 04:16 PM Monday, Jon Galbreath wrote:I never deployed Vista machines. Anything that came with it was wiped
and Windows XP was installed. When 7 was available and before I had
the infrastructure in place to deploy it, I ordered machines with 7 and
the XP SP3 downgrade. Support won't end for Win7 until 1/14/2020, so
there's plenty of time to skip future releases.
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From: David McFarlane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:02 PM
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So, are folks really planning to keep ordering machines with Win7
instead of Win8 as long as possible, and then reformat Win8 machines to
install Win7 after they can no longer buy machines with Win7? That's
fine, but, depite an earlier comment, it does seem to involve a lot of
"involuntary" action :).
-- dkm
At 8/6/2012 03:51 PM Monday, Gary Schrock wrote:We were able to order machines with XP for a long time after Vista
came out, can't remember if it was all the way up until 7 came out or not.
Now, you couldn't walk into Best Buy and get a machine without Vista
(for that matter, I think the home stores of the various PC
manufactures didn't give the option, I think it was mainly their
business oriented stores). There were some laptops that I ran into
that were difficult to get drivers for XP, so that's really what to
me became the biggest issue. 7 ended up decent enough that one
didn't really need to avoid it.
I'm guessing MS is going to get the same type of reaction from
businesses for Win8 as they did for Vista, and get forced to keep Win
7 around far longer than they might want to.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, David McFarlane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Indeed, but can we ever voluntarily opt out of eventuallydeploying each newversion of Windows? Especially when it becomes impossible to
order new PCs without it? Did we succeed in voluntarily avoiding Vista, or 7?
-- dkm
At 8/6/2012 03:37 PM Monday, Jon Galbreath wrote:
It's a voluntary action to run the installer, so yes.
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But will we have any choice? Do we ever?
-- dkm
(Sorry, late to the party, was gone on vacation)
At 8/1/2012 03:10 PM Wednesday, Stehouwer, Matt wrote:I would have to 2nd that.
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Jon Galbreath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:TechNet and MSDN gets it Aug 15!
Anyone planning to actually deploy this?
The words "over my dead body" come to mind :).