Windows 7 and 8.1 To Be Discontinued Next Year

[SecularMotion]

Starting November 1, 2016 Windows 7 and 8.1 will no longer be available for purchase. Microsoft recently updated their Windows Lifecycle Fact Sheet page and pointed out that October 31, 2016 will be the last day on which Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be sold preinstalled on PCs. Although usually the previous version of Windows is discontinued in the next two years after another one is released, the Windows 7 had a longer life. It should have been made unavailable in 2014, but due to the fact that users didn’t exactly welcome the Windows 8.1, it was allowed to be sold even past this date. PCs with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate versions preinstalled became unavailable on October 31, 2014, but the Windows 7 Premium survived. Now that the Windows 10 was released, it seems that Windows 7 and 8.1 will be discontinued.

If you would like to use Windows 7 on new hardware after October 31, 2016, you will need to use downgrade rights or exercise Software Assurance rights with volume license agreements. It probably won’t be the case, since Windows 10 seems to be a good software. It’s not like the Windows 8 that was so badly received by users. The Windows 10 software might be individual users’ and businesses’ choice of software even before the end of the lifecycle of the Windows 7.

http://techgadgetcentral.com/2015/11/04/windows-7-and-8-1-to-be-discontinued-next-year/

[hobbit709]

1. I still have about 10 unused Windows 7 licenses.

Guess I'll hang on to them.

[friendly_iconoclast]

2. Smart move...

[gvstn]

3. I really like Win7.

More stable than XP (forgive me XP lovers). It has the great Start>Search box to find programs. And it doesn't crash and say boot.ini is missing. (It may once a year say bootmgr is missing) but a simple insertion of the original disc is sufficient to fix this problem. Not so in XP.

I've tried 8.0 and 8.1 but still prefer win7. It does what you need without anyone spying on you.

[artyteacher]

4. Linux eom

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I have Win 7 on both my desktop and my laptop.

I plan to keep them as long as Windows supports them.

I'm very happy with Win 7.

[hobbit709]

6. I know several people with XP machines. They're working fine.

If nothing else M$ can't screw them up with an update. All they use them for is email, internet, and word processing and some basic image editing.