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How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:52 am
by southof40
I'm planning on buy a T4xx/T5xx around September.
The other day Microsoft were quoted as saying that Windows 8 will be released 'in a couple of months'. I don't really want Windows 8 on my new machine so I'd like to make sure I'd ordered in time to still be able to specify Windows 7.
When a new release of a Microsoft OS becomes available how soon after that does it become impossible to order a Thinkpad with the previous version of the OS ? Is it more or less immediate or is there a period of weeks/months when you can still get the old version ?
Re: How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:01 am
by RealBlackStuff
Even today you can still buy XP.
W7 will be available for quite a while yet (several years).
If W8 turns out to be the abomination it is supposed to be, M$ will start developing W9 in a hurry.
Either way, you buy the laptop from Lenovo, who can put on what Lenovo (or the buyer) wants, NOT what M$ wants!
Re: How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:19 am
by southof40
Even today you can still buy XP.
Wow ! OK I didn't know that. The only thing is when I go to build a quote on my (non USA -
http://shopap.lenovo.com/nz/en/products ... /thinkpad/) version of lenovo.com I get offered various flavours of Windows 7 but I don't, for instance, get offered, Windows XP .
Maybe this is something you have to do on the phone to a sales rep ?
Re: How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:08 am
by RealBlackStuff
You can still buy XP on the open market, but not any more from PC/Laptop providers.
Sorry if my info was incomplete.
XP will lose support from M$ in 2014.
For this and similar info on other OSes, see this:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-long ... ows-7/2304
Re: How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:04 pm
by southof40
Well FWIW and for future reference I just did the online chat thing via the lenovo site and the response to my question was : "we don't have any information on that" (not quite sure if I was talking to a bot so maybe this was just the bot falling out of a CASE statement)
Then I got on the phone to Aus/NZ sales and the sales rep says "as soon as Windows 8 is out there Windows 7 will no longer be an option" ... sigh.
Re: How quickly will Windows 7 become unavailable ?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:46 pm
by ajkula66
southof40 wrote:
Then I got on the phone to Aus/NZ sales and the sales rep says "as soon as Windows 8 is out there Windows 7 will no longer be an option" ... sigh.
I seriously doubt that based on past experiences with Lenovo...W7 will be around for quite some time.