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I just received a call from our hardware suppliers.
[Previously on Stargate]
One of the Site Bods wants a new laptop so I said I would organise it.
However...It turns out that the regular suppliers only have W8 machines will charge about £50 more for it than previously (even though W8 is cheaper!).
I complain and said that there is no way we are having an 8 in this company and that if they want a sale they better jolly well obtain a 7 and get it to us pronto or there will be a word or two said, and probably a damn good thrashing.
So, returning to the phone call.
"We have been searching around and managed to get a W7 machine for you, it will be there by about 4.00pm today.
Sorry for that but everyone is trying to sell the new stuff via the trade, the old stuff is just being levered out the back doors.
I have a friend who got hold of one so don't worry, but any future machines will be 8's"
No they elephanting won't be!
Whatever happened to "Customer is King?"
If they want our money they should damn well do as they are told.
</righteous indignation>
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Time to find a new supplier. Hey, even Microsoft is still supporting Windows 7. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Yep, new supplier if they cannot get us what we want to pay for.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I'm sure the loss of the one system you buy of them every 6 months, will really hurt them.
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It's the principle that counts.
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So far this year we have had three laptops, a desktop, an external HDD, several memory sticks and about £3000 worth of printer cartridges.
Do you think it hurts if we left?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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No.
I would have thought that is small fry, I can't see them stocking Win7 machines just for you. I work for a MNC we have 2,500 employees every time someone new starts they get a top of the range brand new system(I think we pay £2,500 a laptop).
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Each Windows licence includes the right to downgrade to the previous version, so you could quite easily install Win 7 on any Win 8 machine
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Chris Quinn wrote: Each Windows licence includes the right to downgrade to the previous version
I don't recall seeing that in the first version. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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W8 Woes?
Isn't that where Jonathan Ross goes shopping?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Bravo.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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