Win7/Win8.1 equipment will be discontinued for sale from October 31, 2016

For more users to install and use Win10, Microsoft can still say that it is quite hard, the most prominent is to provide Windows7 official version upgrade for Win7/Win8.1 users free of charge. In addition, OEMs working with Microsoft are also a focus of Microsoft's actions. Recently, Microsoft announced the latest OEM system life cycle, and computer sales pre-installed with Windows7/Windows 8.1 system entered the “death countdown”.

According to Microsoft's latest data, OEMs who want to sell pre-installed Win7/Win8.1 devices must do so by October 31, 2016. And from the information below, the Win7 version is limited to the "Professional Edition", including the "Home Premium" and "The Ultimate" version of the other models have been discontinued on October 31, 2014. Sales. In addition, computers with pre-installed Win8 will be discontinued until June 30, 2016.

So, users who want to buy a pre-installed Win7/Win8.1 computer now have less than one year of theoretical time remaining. And now the business is basically promoting the concept of Win10 computer, the old system equipment is actually difficult to see at the publicity level. Of course, these measures will not have much impact on users who can configure their own systems.