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.

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Re:Remember the old MS slogan?

[Bing Tsher E]

Use an Offline Update Downloader to create an ISO. Run the ISO's installer to update Windows 7. Do this as frequently as you feel is necessary. Turn Windows Update completely off in the Windows 7 Control Panel.

The nice thing is, you archive your updates this way. I ran the Offline Update Downloader the day they turned off Windows XP updates and made a final update set for XP. Any time I see the need to build an XP system, pull out the ISO and run it on the new XP install.

Re:Pushback

[Ol Olsoc]

It's amazing that a change to an interface somehow makes customer data flow out somewhere. I'm going to assume you can't follow a conversation and just froth at the mouth at the opportunity to mention telemetry every chance you get.

Go do a little research. The put Wireshark on a Windows 10 computer, and sit back and enjoy the show. Then enable all of the security features.

Then spend some more time with wireshark and lecture us on telemetry.

Because you are either ignorant, or lying. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt, and we'll just say you don't know what you are talking about.