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People Are Obtaining Windows 7 Licenses For the Free Windows 10 Upgrade

Posted by Soulskill on from the cheap-is-relative dept.

jones_supa writes: Windows 7 has quickly started increasing its market share of desktop operating systems, nearing 61%. If you're wondering why this is happening when Windows 10 is almost here, the reason is this: Windows 10 will be available as a free upgrade for those running Windows 7 and 8, and the new OS will have the exact same hardware requirements as its predecessor, so the majority of PCs should be able to run it just as well. Because Windows 7 was launched in 2009, a license is more affordable than for Windows 8, so many users are switching to this version to take advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade offer.

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  1. 10th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Used to be 7th post.

    1. Re:10th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The 9th post has been removed to prevent confusion with the 95th and 98th posts.

  2. Alternatively by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Alternatively, people have seen that Windows 10 is just as bad as Windows 8 and are hurrying to buy Windows 7 licenses as the only decent version of Windows with a reasonably long remaining support window...

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    1. Re:Alternatively by PRMan · · Score: 5, Informative

      Except that Windows 10 is much better than Windows 8. Although I agree that I slightly like Windows 7 better, but not enough to forgo a free upgrade and more years of bugfix support.

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