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Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the windows-version-nazi dept.

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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  1. Very appy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Appsoft is simply cutting off the LUDDITES who are too stupid to figure out how to use appscreens with appy app apps, and instead demand LUDDITE software that uses LUDDITE keyboards. Now those LUDDITES won't be able to install a LUDDITE operating system, and they'll have to use appy Appdows 10!

    Apps!

  2. Re:The Linux world stops distros without systemd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows 10 or SystemD, or a $2000 macbook pro with crippled ports. These are your choices in 2016.

    Please no more political posts! oh wait...