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The perfect OS?  The choice is yours.

Expert HP engineering and choices let you select the perfect operating system solution for you or your business.

Working for you

HP engineers work intimately and extensively with operating system providers to verify top quality and compatibility with HP Workstations.

We conduct:

  • Joint engineering collaboration, often onsite, with industry partners long before systems are introduced.
  • Stringent testing and certification to help ensure reliability and save you time and trouble.
  • Application performance-optimization to deliver the highest levels of system performance.  

HP and Microsoft®

» HP Workstations and Microsoft®
» The Power of 64-bit Computing
» Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition and HP Workstations
» HP and Microsoft Relationship

HP and Linux

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Trusted solutions

Rest easy in your selection of an operating system for an HP Workstation. Microsoft® and Linux are trusted HP partners and our HP Personal Workstation lab is full of engineers who work full-time to make sure the operating system preinstalled on your workstation works seamlessly for you.

Not only do HP engineers hammer out the details in the lab to help partners verify reliability, we help create cutting-edge technology. As we have with every operating system we preinstall, HP worked with Microsoft in the early stages of Vista® development. And our engineers created enhancements to Linux software used in the production of world-class animation, cutting edge product design, large scale modeling and financial computation

HP Workstation operating systems are engineered for your success—no matter which platform you choose.

The right choice for you

Microsoft Windows®

Now, with an HP Workstation purchase you get two operating systems for the price of one. Choose the Vista® Downgrade Program when ordering your HP Personal Workstation to use Genuine Windows XP Professional now and get everything you need to install Vista later.
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Linux

HP delivers Linux the way you like it. Your HP Workstation can be delivered with FreeDOS, and our HP Installer Kit supports all mainstream releases of Red Hat, allowing you to easily create your own OS image.
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Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Windows Vista is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

This system may require upgraded and/or separately purchased hardware and/or a DVD drive to install the Windows 7 software and take full advantage of Windows 7 functionality. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ for details

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