Many businesses are only just upgrading to Win7 from XP, they'll miss out Windows 8 just like they did Vista and M$ know this,
expect a new business OS to be launched after Win8

I quite like the look of the metro UI and I can see the logic of unifying the OS across both tablets and PC devices tying in with their windows phone 7 interface. It has a standard desktop environment lurking underneath for those that like it anyway

No, it has 'app' which looks like a real desktop but it's not really - and it makes no sense to unify the GUI as they require a completely different approach dependant on the device; it should not be one size fits all.

Unless you try and integrate with a Windows domain. Then the migraines begin!

There were enough nightmares in trying to set them up so that when a new person came along to use it it wasn't in whatever fscked up state the previous person left it in.

Not ideal when most of your computers get used by at least ten people a day.

Nice to use, complete to support. My "platform doesn't matter" rant that I go on now and again with anti-mac people only applies to using it yourself, not having to support the ba5tard things.

Ok, so my 'borrowed' Dell laptop died last night. The screen went black, wouldn't respond to anything, and now all I can see is the screen flash on roughly every 2 seconds for an instant. I'm guessing this is a card or screen issue? Seems pretty fooked. Won't log on, keep getting blue screen of death - not that I'd want to work on it with the screen flashing at me.

To complement that, my work Lenovo is sporting a nice crack down the screen and keeps fading out to white. It's not worth my job going through work (not got a very good history with laptops) so I've ordered a replacement, found one for £70.

Now looking for laptop around the £300 mark - only to be used for browsing, some software - no really heavy use but a decent chunk of memory would be good. Anyone know of any bargains to be had at the moment? Thanks...

Quote Cronus="Cronus" Now looking for laptop around the £300 mark - only to be used for browsing, some software - no really heavy use but a decent chunk of memory would be good. Anyone know of any bargains to be had at the moment? Thanks...'" Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.

Quote Cronus="Cronus" Now looking for laptop around the £300 mark - only to be used for browsing, some software - no really heavy use but a decent chunk of memory would be good. Anyone know of any bargains to be had at the moment? Thanks...'" Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.'" I've got this very decent laptop too for the money.. The keyboard is nice with a number key too, the scroll is easy to use and responsive. The ram and memory decent size too. Only downside is the sound isn't great out of the speakers so as long as ur not wanting to play loud music / listen to a movie via laptop speakers then you'll be very happy with that laptop.

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.'" I've got this very decent laptop too for the money.. The keyboard is nice with a number key too, the scroll is easy to use and responsive. The ram and memory decent size too. Only downside is the sound isn't great out of the speakers so as long as ur not wanting to play loud music / listen to a movie via laptop speakers then you'll be very happy with that laptop.

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.'" Quote Big Graeme="mwildcats"I've got this very decent laptop too for the money.. The keyboard is nice with a number key too, the scroll is easy to use and responsive. The ram and memory decent size too. Only downside is the sound isn't great out of the speakers so as long as ur not wanting to play loud music / listen to a movie via laptop speakers then you'll be very happy with that laptop.'" Thanks to you both, looks pretty decent for the money, will probably do the job for what we want. Not that fussed about speakers (I tend to plug in portable speakers if having a music session on the laptop). I'll have a closer look tomorrow and whip the plastic out if I'm feeling saucy.

Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"Outstanding deal bit.ly/zLg9Wm decent company too.'" Quote Big Graeme="mwildcats"I've got this very decent laptop too for the money.. The keyboard is nice with a number key too, the scroll is easy to use and responsive. The ram and memory decent size too. Only downside is the sound isn't great out of the speakers so as long as ur not wanting to play loud music / listen to a movie via laptop speakers then you'll be very happy with that laptop.'" Thanks to you both, looks pretty decent for the money, will probably do the job for what we want. Not that fussed about speakers (I tend to plug in portable speakers if having a music session on the laptop). I'll have a closer look tomorrow and whip the plastic out if I'm feeling saucy.

Ha. I wish the place I'm working at were that advanced. Although on the other side they are pushing us to move to Server 2008 R2 which only comes in the 64 bit version. Sadly it seems the idea we should be developing on machines which are vaguely similar to the machines our software will actually run on is lost on them. Particularly as they also want us to move our software to 64 bit, still without being able to run it on our dev machines.

XP stuck with many businesses because it worked and worked well and with a bit of maintenance it still does.
If it wasn't for 64 bit we'd still be using it.

Unless you're on one of the extended license plans support for XP has already ended.