HP launched discount campaign for Windows 7 PC instead of Windows 8

ByAlex Gorzen

PC manufacturer'sHP (Hewlett-Packard)Due to many requests from customers, we launched a campaign to sell up to $ 150 (about 15,000 yen) discount for PCs equipped with "Windows 7", a Windows operating system 4 years ago at online shop doing.

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HP launched a campaign to discount between 80 dollars (about 8300 yen) and 150 dollars (15,000 yen) for models equipped with Windows 7, which is the previous version, not Windows 8 or 8.1 of the latest OS.


Line up,
·HP Pavilion 500-205 t Desktop PC: $ 479.99 (about 50,000 yen)
·HP ENVY 700-215xt Desktop PC: $ 699.99 (about 73,000 yen)
·HP ENVY Phoenix 810 - 135 q Desktop PC: $ 999.99 (about 100,000 yen)
·HP Pavilion 15t-n200 Notebook PC: $ 599.99 (about 62,000 yen)
·HP ENVY 15t-j100 Quad Edition Notebook PC: $ 799.99 (about 83,000 yen)
In all five models, prices are all discounted.


Total share of Windows 8 and 8.1 exceeded 10%By the way, Windows XP is about 30%, Windows 7 is about 47%. It occupies the world's largest share in the PC marketLenovoYaDellAlso continues to sell PCs equipped with Windows 7, HP also responded to "frequently requested" from customers, sometimes we started this campaign, so Windows 8 and 8.1 can not survive in orbit yet It seems.

TECHnalysis Research"Each PC maker thinks that companies using Windows 7 will not be transitioning to Windows 8 or 8.1 for a while," said the world's top 3 PC makers on Windows 7 By supporting Odonnell, Mr. O'Donnell speculates that the release time of Windows 9 will be advanced so as to avoid the tragedy that "Microsoft (Windows 8)" becomes Windows Vista version 2 " I will.