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Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on VentureBeat: Out with the old, and in with the new. Microsoft yesterday stopped providing Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders. This means that, as of today, the only way you can buy a computer running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 is if you can still find one in stock. Two years ago, Microsoft stopped selling Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to OEMs. Now Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 are also out of the picture, leaving Windows 10 as the only remaining option, assuming you want a PC with a Microsoft operating system. This is Microsoft's way of slowly phasing out old operating systems.
Windows 10 or SystemD, or a $2000 macbook pro with crippled ports. These are your choices in 2016.
An admirable goal, but it does not take into account all those computers shipped with Windows 9. They will still have to support those, smart guy.
We still have software that doesn't run on windows 8/10
Maybe you ought to be working on a fix instead of /.-ing?
Like porting to Linux? :)
Looks like it really is true that 119.24% of statistics are made up on the spot...
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