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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:49PM (#421788)

    >which hasn't been updated for months, because the last update it received ...

    I understand the OS updates itself. As a non-user I may have missed out on some of the news, so how is yours able to escape the auto updates?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:47AM (#421973)

    I turned them off before they removed Windows Update settings. Oh, I'm sure one of the next updates will turn them back on, but as the Windows Update icon is gone, I can't install those.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:54AM (#421978)

      And apparently I just wasn't waiting long enough, now it does tell me that it is going to install updates with a full screen modal popup thing.

      Well, that just adds to my question: How do I turn automatic updates off without having to use the stupid "humongous icons missing three quarters of the functionality" tablet interface?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @07:48PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @07:48PM (#422905)

        I believe you can go into services and disable the Windows Update service. Though since I don't run Windows 10 myself, I haven't tested it.