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 manufacturers
supplied drivers compatible back at least to XP. Some supported OS's as
far back as Windoze2000 or NT4.0, mostly devices that were available
back then.
It's probably not really a problem with Dell, HP et al.
From: 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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 are offered and suffer through it.
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