Posted on 11/10/2015 6:11:02 AM PST by Utilizer
Microsoft has given notice to its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners that they must no longer sell personal computers with operating systems older than Windows 10 from the middle of next year.
Windows 8 PC sales must end July 1 next year Australian time.
Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 can no longer be preinstalled on new computers from November 1, 2016, Microsoft said in its updated Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet.
The Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 were sunset on November 1 last year by Microsoft.
(Excerpt) Read more at itnews.com.au ...
Big Brother wants to sell your private information too... IMHO
I understand GM and Ford will no longer be selling new 2009 model cars and trucks starting next year.
I'll bet that tthis version is more intrusive and has both backdoors AND windows and that there will planted stories about how to safeguard your information to give people a false sense of security so they'll lettheir guard down. It probably has several backdoors...
Hopefully they will change those huge grills
http://tinyurl.com/o36dmxl
or
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Chevy-Silverado-grille-1024x682.jpg
Windows 7 is supported thru January 13, 2020.
That means 2020 will finally be the year Linux takes over the desktop market. Maybe.
It doesnt matter. Microsoft OWES them, and should continue to sell copies of XP (or some outdated OS) forever and ever.I know, LOL. And yet in the same thread, you will always have these guys swearing they're moving to Linux.It’s like someone in 2001, when XP debuted, demanding that MS still sell and support a copy of Windows sold in 1990 because that’s the version where the “icons were the way I liked themâ€.
Yeah, if they can't handle different icons, they're going to do just swell moving to Linux... </sarcasm>
Oh well, for the non Luddites among us, Windows 10 is a fantastic OS. I am loving it on my Surface Book - first time I've had a "convertible" laptop, but it's really convenient to flip the screen around, or detach it, at times. Will get even better with the upcoming Windows 10 service release.
My son brought his Windows 7 laptop home this weekend. The hard drive was so fragmented and loaded with bloatware, that even the simplest things were agonizingly slow. I did a clean install of Windows 10. He said it was "almost like getting a new laptop".
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