Microsoft Windows 7 support and sales cutoff dates
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Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
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Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
There might be leftover retail dvd versions around...here we can still find Windows 7 Pro, but Home Premium retail is gone!
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Dell running Windows7 having popup from Windows8
I'm a newbie frustration with viruzes and popup window for Microsoft8...when I only want and would like to keep Microcoft 7. 
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Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
I do believe that cutoff date is when Microsoft stops stamping any new disks and stops selling them to retailers. The retailers can if they wish stock up and keep selling any stock they have on after that date until they run out though.
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Win7 taken over by Media Center
Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
I do believe that cutoff date is when Microsoft stops stamping any new disks and stops selling them to retailers. The retailers can if they wish stock up and keep selling any stock they have on after that date until they run out though.
At this point in time I'm not interested in buying another Win7 to replace what I have. I just want what I have to work as it once did. My husband finally found me an answer. My problem was that Media Center basically took over my laptop and I could no longer do anything I normally did. Solution: 1.Go into Safe Mode w/CMD prompt; 2.CD\..ENTER; 3.At C PROMPT; 4."operational/features.exe" (w/o quotes); 5.Enter, 6.Locat "media features"; then Uncheck Media Center. I'll keep my Win7 now as long as I can!!!!
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Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
There might be leftover retail dvd versions around...here we can still find Windows 7 Pro, but Home Premium retail is gone!
Great, I guess it is too late to buy win7. I should of bought a spare version in case my 5 year old hdd dies.
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Curious that end of sales of retail versions of Win 7 was 10/30/2013 since NewEgg is still selling retail versions of Win7 Home Premium and Professional.
There might be leftover retail dvd versions around...here we can still find Windows 7 Pro, but Home Premium retail is gone!
Great, I guess it is too late to buy win7. I should of bought a spare version in case my 5 year old hdd dies.
No, it's not too late. Check here. Both OEM and retail are available. I wouldn't wait long, though.
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It's not so easy to move from Win XP to Win 7. Windows XP ran fine in with under 1 GB RAM, and I suspect most boxes come in at under 2 GB. Windows 7 would choke on such a computer. So I don't see XP-to-7 upgrades happening much.
Margrave, I have to prove you wrong on ALL counts. I have upgraded multiple XP Laptops (some 8 years old) running as little as 512MB of RAM to Windows 7 Home and while they run faster and can have more programs open at the same time with 2GB of RAM...they work just fine for Internet and Basic PC functionallity. Power users and Gamers require more memory but 1 GB is just fine for MOST light computer users.
Dan
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It's not so easy to move from Win XP to Win 7. Windows XP ran fine in with under 1 GB RAM, and I suspect most boxes come in at under 2 GB. Windows 7 would choke on such a computer. So I don't see XP-to-7 upgrades happening much.
Margrave, I have to prove you wrong on ALL counts. I have upgraded multiple XP Laptops (some 8 years old) running as little as 512MB of RAM to Windows 7 Home and while they run faster and can have more programs open at the same time with 2GB of RAM...they work just fine for Internet and Basic PC users.
Dan
Saying ALL for almost anything can get you into trouble. 
in this case, I had a five year old XP machine that, according to M$'s compatibility program, was only partially compatible with Win 7. No Aero was the killer point for me (other than I never liked that particular machine); I depend heavily on AeroSnap, something I was able to get on XP via a third party program that, ironically, wasn't compatible with Wind 7.
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