On 07/24/2013 06:38 AM, j_alexander_stanley wrote: > > --- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: >> >> >> --- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: >>> Thanks, Nabby, you've inadvertently answered a long held question >>> of mine: could I get Win7 on a new computer? >> This is how Microsoft use their muscles in Europe, I don't know >> about across the water where they developed this nonsense. Even here >> you could get WIN7 on a new PC if you buy an outgoing model. > > > With laptops, you're usually dealing with a big company that's strongly tied > into MSFT. With specialty vendors of desktop systems, you're more likely to > find flexibility in choice in OS. The company I buy my desktop systems from, > > http://www.endpcnoise.com/ > > is still offering Win 7, along with Win 8, Linux, or no OS. > > If you want to go to the trouble and expense, you might be able to buy a copy > of Win 7, wipe your hard drive, and install Win 7 on your new laptop. > However, laptops tend to have proprietary hardware, and there's the > possibility that it needs drivers that are only available under Win 8.
You can wipe the laptop and put Linux on it and stop worrying about viruses and trojans. Or even have a dual boot to keep old blue screen around. Up until after the Civil War corporations as large as Microsoft would not have been allowed to exist. We need to go back to the rules that the founding fathers had for corporations. But then you'd get to see a bunch of grown men and women in suits cry.
