Microsoft set deadline for win10 to set win7 death

Computer store news: It is reported that Microsoft set deadline, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 dead time has been fixed, even if the current market share of windows 7 is more than half, this move is considered to be made to impact the sales of Windows 10 Decide.

According to the official "Introduction to the Windows Product Lifecycle" page, Microsoft will officially end the sale of OEM PCs for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 on October 31, 2016. In other words, the dead end of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 has been fixed, and these measures are considered to be the impact of the impact of 1 billion installations.

Microsoft set the deadline for win10 to set the win7 death period

According to the statistics of the market organization NetMarketShare after 10 months, Windows 10 global installed share is 7.94% (about 120 million users), Win8 .1 is 10.68%, and Win7 is still as high as 55.71%.

Microsoft set deadline for win10 to set win7 death

Currently, Windows 7 (Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate) is pre-installed on October 31 last year. As of, but the professional version can still be shipped. According to foreign media reports, Microsoft confirmed the "death date" for Win7 Professional and Win8.1, that is, before October 31 next year, all inventory must be cleaned up.

Microsoft set the deadline for win10 to set the death of win7

After October 31, 2016, consumers will want to buy PC products pre-installed with Windows operating system, only Under Windows 10 is a choice. Of course, users who have purchased Microsoft Enterprise Volume Licensing will not be subject to this deadline, and the pre-installed Windows version will still be available according to the agreement.

Microsoft set the deadline, the main purpose is to give users who are increasingly satisfied with the Windows 7 operating system "pressure" to stimulate their purchase of new PCs. Microsoft's earlier goal of setting up a "1 billion installed device" for the new operating system Windows 10, stimulating the upgrade of old users to the new system is one of the important measures to achieve this goal.

In fact, the Windows 7 sales cycle has been extended for two years. By convention, the second year Microsoft released a new operating system is usually the time for the company to end its last version of Windows sales. In other words, Windows 7 should officially stop selling as early as October 2014, two years after the release of Windows 8. However, because of the controversy surrounding Windows 8, Microsoft eventually had to quell consumer grievance by extending the Windows 7 sales cycle.

Overall, Windows’ market share fell by 0.12% to 90.42% in October, while Mac OS’s share rose 0.28% to 8.00%, while Linux fell 0.17% to 1.57%.

In response, the Windows department's boss Terry Myerson said in an interview with the media that they will take some more radical measures to encourage old system users to switch to Win10, such as automatically downloading the installation package and providing "One button." The opportunity to wash white & rdquo;