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Microsoft Ends Sale of Windows 7 and 8.1 Licenses to OEMs

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the tears-were-shed-across-the-land dept.

takyon writes:

Microsoft continues to phase out Windows 7 and 8.1:

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. The Windows Lifecycle chart for sales doesn't have an end date for Windows 10, since that operating system doesn't have a successor.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:55AM (#421490)

    Torrent the good versions.

    Run it in a VM.

    You should use Linux instead.

    Fuck, I'm shure I forgot something.

    Meme me, bros!

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  • (Score: 1) by nethead on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:13AM

    by nethead (4970) <joe@nethead.com> on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:13AM (#421494) Homepage

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  • (Score: 2) by fishybell on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:04AM

    by fishybell (3156) on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:04AM (#421508)

    Meme me, bros!

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