Past October 31st, however, the OEMs will not be able to sell PCs with the consumer editions of Windows 7 pre-installed.
When pressed for reasons behind the change, Windows senior business program manager Shad Larsen said it had nothing to do with a lack of adoption for Windows 8 by enterprise customers or the upcoming end-of-life for Windows XP.
Rather, Larsen says business customers remain in the mid-cycle of deploying the Windows 7 operating system, so Microsoft wants to make it easier to have businesses buy it.
Looking farther out, Windows 7's end-of-life for free support is January 13th, 2015, with extended support through January, 2020.
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 15 Feb 2014 14:35
