Manufacturers and vendors that still have Win 7 machines will still be able to sell them after Friday until existing stocks are depleted. The same is true for vendors selling OEM licenses. New Win 7 Professional licenses will still be available to OEMs for an unspecified amount of time.

This isn't really news; M$ announced this years ago.

Microsoft still doesn't have a better replacement for win-7,
Win-10 :/
Nothing more than 8.1 with a start menu stuck with bing search default which means you type anything in the search box and hit the enter key and boom your on a bing search page
8.1 and Start8 is better but I suppose 10 and Start10 will be available

I really don't believe windows gets the fundamentals of a desktop anymore and I don't get the mobile stuff so I'm stuck with what works best for me win-7

What I've seen of Win 10 so far has been a great improvement over Win 8.x and a slight improvement over Win 7. However, the improvement isn't enough to convince me to switch from Win 7...yet; it's still in the testing stages and a lot can change between now and when it is RTM.

If MS were smart, they'd still allow sales of W7 until W10 is released.
I'm surprised that the OEMs aren't jumping up and down, screaming and shouting.

Maybe MS are hoping people will just put up with the W8 series.
I suspect that people won't upgrade or they will swap to something else (e.g. Apple).

Lady Fitzgerald said:

What I've seen of Win 10 so far has been a great improvement over Win 8.x and a slight improvement over Win 7. However, the improvement isn't enough to convince me to switch from Win 7...yet; it's still in the testing stages and a lot can change between now and when it is RTM.

The initial beta (b9841) was really good.
The update (b9860) broke the best feature of b9841 (IMO).
Not a good sign.

Things could get a lot worse between now and the final release.

They still need to include a "Purge All Apps" tool (I suspect they won't though).

Microsoft will never say anything negative about it's operating system. Microsoft will just guide us the new and improved of what ever they have.

Windows 8's boat didn't float in the consumers pond. Windows 7 owns the pond. Now Microsoft wants us to buy another boat and get out of the Windows 7 boat.
Presto Windows 10.

Microsoft need a operating system to sell (W-10) not a operating system to give free updates to (W-7).
That is the old formula of 2+2=$

I found this formula in a cave wrote on the wall with counterfeit Chinese lipstick.
In a country called Bingmyass.

Their are many that like W-8. Their just isn't enough of them to suite Microsoft's needs for sales.

Microsoft's yard stick to measure success is sales.
Just like every other company.