Solve : Windows 7 will void HP warrenty. True??

1.	Solve : Windows 7 will void HP warrenty. True??
Answer» New buyers of HP computers who downgrade to Windows 7 will void the warrenty says an HP release. HARD to believe. Or is it? And is it true? Depends on what your read. Here is one: Quote HP Support: Downgrading Your New Computer To Windows 7 Voids The Warranty (Update: No, Not Really) February 13, 2013 By Laura Northrup Nick needed a PC for a new employee, and went to Fry’s and bought it retail. Here’s the PROBLEM: the computer came with Windows 8, but the department where he works still only supports Windows 7. It was only after he downgraded that someone on HP’s support staff told him that going back to an older operating system voids the new computer’s warranty. Update: This is not actually the case. http://consumerist.com/2013/02/13/downgrading-your-new-hp-computer-to-windows-7-voids-the-warranty/ There are more like that on the HP forums. Here is another from Bleeping Computer. Quote I got the 2 year warranty with the laptop but I wonder if installing Windows 7 over my Windows Vista will void my laptop's warranty? WOULD dual-booting be able to prevent it if it will void the warranty? http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/294572/will-installing-windows-7-void-my-warranty/ So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year? Once you move past the Metro SCREEN you are pretty much using Windows 7 (my experience anyway). To me Windows 8 is pretty much Windows 7 with touch screen abilities. I don't have a touch screen. Oh, and no start button... Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 17, 2013, 11:06:37 PM So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year? I had no idea I was getting this computer. Complete surprise to me. I had done ZERO reading up on Windows 8. It took me about 6 or 7 minutes to find the Control Panel. Once I achieved that everything else fell into place. Like riding a bike. Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 17, 2013, 11:06:37 PM tp://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/294572/will-installing-windows-7-void-my-warranty/ So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay really ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year? I see no reason, related to Windows 8, to wait if you would otherwise buy now. It's been on new computers in the market for ... what ... a few months now and I believe it was extensively tested before being released.

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New buyers of HP computers who downgrade to Windows 7 will void the warrenty says an HP release. HARD to believe. Or is it?
And is it true? Depends on what your read. Here is one:
Quote

HP Support: Downgrading Your New Computer To Windows 7 Voids The Warranty (Update: No, Not Really)
February 13, 2013 By Laura Northrup
Nick needed a PC for a new employee, and went to Fry’s and bought it retail. Here’s the PROBLEM: the computer came with Windows 8, but the department where he works still only supports Windows 7. It was only after he downgraded that someone on HP’s support staff told him that going back to an older operating system voids the new computer’s warranty. Update: This is not actually the case.

http://consumerist.com/2013/02/13/downgrading-your-new-hp-computer-to-windows-7-voids-the-warranty/
There are more like that on the HP forums. Here is another from Bleeping Computer.
Quote

I got the 2 year warranty with the laptop but I wonder if installing Windows 7 over my Windows Vista will void my laptop's warranty? WOULD dual-booting be able to prevent it if it will void the warranty?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/294572/will-installing-windows-7-void-my-warranty/

So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year?
Once you move past the Metro SCREEN you are pretty much using Windows 7 (my experience anyway).

To me Windows 8 is pretty much Windows 7 with touch screen abilities. I don't have a touch screen. Oh, and no start button...

Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 17, 2013, 11:06:37 PM

So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year?

I had no idea I was getting this computer. Complete surprise to me. I had done ZERO reading up on Windows 8. It took me about 6 or 7 minutes to find the Control Panel. Once I achieved that everything else fell into place. Like riding a bike. Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 17, 2013, 11:06:37 PM

tp://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/294572/will-installing-windows-7-void-my-warranty/
So the question I have is this? Is Windows 8 relay really ready? How long should I wait to buy a new PC? A year?

I see no reason, related to Windows 8, to wait if you would otherwise buy now. It's been on new computers in the market for ... what ... a few months now and I believe it was extensively tested before being released.

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