Advice Request Microsoft has stopped selling Windows 7 and 8.1 licenses for OEMs

[BoraMurdar]

From Neowin
OEMs can no longer purchase licenses for Windows 7 or 8.1

Are you planning on buying a PC that has Windows 7 Professional or 8.1 pre-installed? Well, you'd better act quickly, as Microsoft has stopped selling licenses for the operating systems. The news should not come as a surprise, as the company is following its long-standing end-of-sales dates.

As you can see, as of today, the only Microsoft-developed OS that you can get pre-installed on a new PC is Windows 10. Luckily, Windows Vista, 7, and 8.1 are all still supported, and will continue to be for some time.

The end of extended support for Vista will be in April of next year, and for Windows 7 it will be January, 2020. Windows 8.1 will still be offered mainstream support until 2018, and then extended support won't end until 2023.

 

[frogboy]

Got to do something about Windows 10 market share and this should do the trick.

 

[Deleted member 178]

At last...

 

[Soulbound]

This is why i always got the actual disks with licenses and additional licenses for windows 7 and 8.1, aside from 2 windows 10.

With the amount of systems i go through on yearly basis, adding new hardware, buying 2nd hand for good deals etc, it comes in handy.

Still have W7 and W8.1 on some systems used by family members.

 

[Sundaram999]

This was inevitable

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

I knew this was just around the corner for Windows 7 but I thought
they would wait a bit to do this to Win 8.1. I guess It does make sense
to do this to 8.1 at the same time as it saves them the effort later but
boy 8.1 I think had a very short lived life cycle.
There are going to be some upset 8.1 users I think.
Cool share Bora, Thanks.

 

[jamescv7]

Time to move on and appreciate the latest version of Windows, whether you like it or not.

That move is such practicality to give way and use Windows 10 as part of their latest/current edition so far; revenues/shares are important in order to overcome the overall expenses.