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In other news, HP reports that the OS will immediately lockup upon install of iTunes 8 since every version of the OS will ship with drivers for ALL their USB printers installed.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX

Count me in!]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0S5zS8jSE4]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Once of the reasons APPLE has been so successful is that their machines and their software are tied together like a strand of DNA.
Their hardware and software work together in perfect unison. Across multiple platforms, the builds still remain the same from computer to computer, so , as they are using the same OS, it is simple to troubleshoot them, upgrade them and update them.


Microsoft makes an OS that can be used from the biggest desktop powerhouse on down to the average netbook. Hardware profiles are not the same, the building blocks of the computer vary from machine to machine. Therefore, Microsofts instability is a consequence of it having to be a "one size fits all" deal.

HP is the largest computer manufacturer. Therefore, if they implemented their own OS...like they've already hinted at with QUICKPLAY, they will have full control over their machines, their OS pricing and they will not have to give revenue to Microsoft since they won't have to license their OS. HP can make its printers, scanners, fax machines, desktops, notebooks and ipaqs work together in unison without having to continuously call MS for new licensing.

THIS IS A BRILLIANT MOVE FOR HP - cut out the middleman. Windows Operating systems probably add to HP's system failure rate due to OS lockups.

ITS A BAD MOVE FOR MICROSOFT - HP's laptops give Microsoft huge amounts of market penetration.

HP needs their own OS and their own WEB BROWSER. They've damn near got everything else.
]]>Sep 12th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/HP needs to keep Vista, but maybe offer Linux and XP as an option. ]]>Sep 12th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/]]>Sep 12th 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
OSX crashes too...]]>Sep 12th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
HP ist that crappy company that can't even port a printer-driver from 32bit to 64bit (mine is lj 1010), so how are they going to create an operating system?]]>Sep 13th 2008 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
If that's the case, why use GNOME at all? It seems to me that if they wanted something polished, integrated, and full of eye candy, they would use KDE as soon as 4.2 rolls out (to compete with Apple of course, and it doesn't hurt that it's compatible with Dashboard widgets). Really, there's no reason for them to stick with GNOME unless they're going for rock-hard stability over polish and innovation (and besides, HP's printer GUIs already use Qt).]]>Sep 15th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Seriously... we hear this EVERYTIME a new or "in the spotlight" OS comes out.

Carmack, where's my gaming OS?]]>Sep 12th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
This is a bad idea. End of story.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 17th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
It may work, but may utterly fail.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Now go spread _that_ rumor, BusinessWeek. Silly bastards.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Too easy.]]>Sep 12th 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Why waist your time? It's only the interface over a very good core. how hard that can be!!]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
It's like the perfect tag line for a health drink.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
I am all for more people trying to make user-friendly linux. Of course, i still think this article is BS and i doubt HP is going to do this.
-Taylor]]>Sep 12th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
On a side note. I've set up prebuilt systems for other people before and always noticed tons of bloatware installed. Supprisingly this HP Touch Smart IQ506 only had the Touch Smart interface, MS Works, Norton Security Suite, and HP Solution Center. There were 'links' to other software that was on the backup system image partition but they were not installed. Having that stuff as an option is much better then installing it. After backing up the image partition I wiped that out and put the space to better use. I din't have to uninstall anything. I hope this trend continues with all of HP's desktops.]]>Sep 13th 2008 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
On a side note. I've set up prebuilt systems for other people before and always noticed tons of bloatware installed. Supprisingly this HP Touch Smart IQ506 only had the Touch Smart interface, MS Works, Norton Security Suite, and HP Solution Center. There were 'links' to other software that was on the backup system image partition but they were not installed. Having that stuff as an option is much better then installing it. After backing up the image partition I wiped that out and put the space to better use. I din't have to uninstall anything. I hope this trend continues with all of HP's desktops.]]>Sep 13th 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 13th 2008 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Engadget is owned by AOL (I think that speaks for itself).]]>Sep 15th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX)]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Anyone high up at HP recently from Palm?
]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Seriously though I don't know just how realistic it is for them to expect to succeed. I mean I can barely stand OS X and I've only heard about Ubuntu and Linux in the last few months.

I just don't think this is gonna work. Especially given HP's tendency to put a lot of bloatware on their computers and notebooks.

Still though they're more than welcome to try. I'd give it a look in a store and if they made a decent attempt I might dive in.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Annoying that you have to spend 10 seconds of your life changing that option upon a fresh install, but hardly a reason to switch operating systems and re-purchase all your software.]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
Fun little day for you, no?]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/Sep 12th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/12/hp-said-to-be-considering-making-its-own-os-to-counter-vista/
leopard FTW!!


Snow leopard for future win!!

:)]]>Sep 12th 2008 2:42PM