Microsoft ends Windows 7 retail sales
Sets October 2014 cut-off for sales to OEMs
Computerworld - Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website. The company's policies for shutting off sales to retailers and shipping licenses to OEMS (original equipment manufacturers) are posted on its site, which was recently updated to show that Windows 7's "retail end of sales" date was Oct. 30.
The next deadline, marked as "End of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled," will be Oct. 30, 2014, less than a year away.
A check of Microsoft's own online store showed that the company has pulled Windows 7 from those virtual shelves.
In practical terms, the end-of-retail-sales date has been an artificial and largely meaningless deadline, as online retailers have continued to sell packaged copies, sometimes for years, by restocking through distributors which squirreled away older editions. Today, for example, Amazon.com had a plentiful supply of various versions of Windows 7 available to ship, as did technology specialist Newegg.com.
But officially, the major PC vendors -- like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo -- will discontinue most Windows 7 PC sales in October 2014, making Windows 8 and its follow-ups, including Windows 8.1, the default.
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This post is a follow up on: Windows 8: The Cloud, Big Brother, And the Eye-of-Horus; The World Is Ready, Says Microsoft 11-22-12 "This is Microsoft's
description of Windows 8, from their website: Your life, connected through the cloud. ...Windows 8 has in fact opened a 'window' to the 'cloud' for all users, whether they want it or not, and in that it is being used to subtly start the 'cloud shift'...are the 'hidden' messages in this Windows 8 "The World Is Ready" promo video a statement that the world is considered now ready for Horus, i.e. the Antichrist - along with the global system to monitor and control everything and everybody that comes with him - and that Windows 8 (and beyond) is going to make it happen? - Apparently the would-be global managers feel that the "world is ready" for these things, and the only thing needed is global software-integration at the consumer level...The reality is that Windows 8 evidently is the beginning of what will be a virtually 'universal' software-system. Everything everywhere will be easily connected into it, from computers to tablets to phones and perhaps even ATM's eventually [log on to your 'home page']..."Your life, connected through the cloud". Connected to what? Connected to the Brave New World global grid of course - your life, digitalized, in the hands of the software-controllers of the nether-world" [see post; follow links, connect dots]
A couple of things to note - the posted article mentions that in the past Microsoft's deadlines for the phase-out of 'old' operating systems have been "largely meaningless", as the software could still be purchased through various outlets beyond the stated date. That was then though, this is now. This time it most certainly will be different because the plan for Windows 8 is totally different than anything prior. Windows 8 [and beyond] is about "global software integration" and transitioning everybody and everything to the "cloud" - so they can be "connected". There is no intention of making this optional. Controlling all life on earth via "the cloud" is the plan, has been the plan from the beginning, as is now obvious, and Windows 8 [and 8.1 etc.] is the official 'big move'. While the author of the above article notes that Amazon and a few other retailers are still selling Windows 7 copies, watch and see how fast they will disappear. Prediction: they will vanish like a "cloud" on a hot summer day.
The "world is ready" say the would-be 'cloud-masters'.
Ready for what?
See it for what it is, go from there. Rev. 18:4
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12-11-13 update: Microsoft retracts Win7 end date - or maybe not
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Exodus 32:26 'Who is on the LORD'S side?'
Sets October 2014 cut-off for sales to OEMs
Computerworld - Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website. The company's policies for shutting off sales to retailers and shipping licenses to OEMS (original equipment manufacturers) are posted on its site, which was recently updated to show that Windows 7's "retail end of sales" date was Oct. 30.
The next deadline, marked as "End of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled," will be Oct. 30, 2014, less than a year away.
A check of Microsoft's own online store showed that the company has pulled Windows 7 from those virtual shelves.
In practical terms, the end-of-retail-sales date has been an artificial and largely meaningless deadline, as online retailers have continued to sell packaged copies, sometimes for years, by restocking through distributors which squirreled away older editions. Today, for example, Amazon.com had a plentiful supply of various versions of Windows 7 available to ship, as did technology specialist Newegg.com.
But officially, the major PC vendors -- like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo -- will discontinue most Windows 7 PC sales in October 2014, making Windows 8 and its follow-ups, including Windows 8.1, the default.
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This post is a follow up on: Windows 8: The Cloud, Big Brother, And the Eye-of-Horus; The World Is Ready, Says Microsoft 11-22-12 "This is Microsoft's
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| Original Microsoft promo Nov. 2012 |
A couple of things to note - the posted article mentions that in the past Microsoft's deadlines for the phase-out of 'old' operating systems have been "largely meaningless", as the software could still be purchased through various outlets beyond the stated date. That was then though, this is now. This time it most certainly will be different because the plan for Windows 8 is totally different than anything prior. Windows 8 [and beyond] is about "global software integration" and transitioning everybody and everything to the "cloud" - so they can be "connected". There is no intention of making this optional. Controlling all life on earth via "the cloud" is the plan, has been the plan from the beginning, as is now obvious, and Windows 8 [and 8.1 etc.] is the official 'big move'. While the author of the above article notes that Amazon and a few other retailers are still selling Windows 7 copies, watch and see how fast they will disappear. Prediction: they will vanish like a "cloud" on a hot summer day.
The "world is ready" say the would-be 'cloud-masters'.
Ready for what?
See it for what it is, go from there. Rev. 18:4
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12-11-13 update: Microsoft retracts Win7 end date - or maybe not
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Exodus 32:26 'Who is on the LORD'S side?'
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