{"id":1514,"date":"2016-10-06T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2019-05-08T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T22:39:04","slug":"no-you-havent-just-a-month-to-buy-oem-windows-7-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/10\/06\/no-you-havent-just-a-month-to-buy-oem-windows-7-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"No, you haven&rsquo;t just a month to buy OEM-Windows 7 PCs &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"win7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/win7_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"win7\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/windows-7-und-8-1-laufen-ab-november-bei-oems-aus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]My colleague Ed Bott has published on September 30, 2016, the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/you-have-one-month-left-to-buy-a-windows-7-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You have one month left to buy a Windows 7 PC<\/a>, suggesting, that OEMs are reaching the end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7 machines on November 1, 2016. That's no more true.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7<\/h3>\n<p>Ed Bott wrote: \"On\u00a0 Oct. 31, 2016, Microsoft officially declares Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 dead\" and says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beginning Nov. 1, Microsoft's largest partners, the so-called royalty OEMs like Dell and HP and Lenovo, will no longer be able to build and sell new PCs running any version of Windows except Windows 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Ed was right \u2013 Microsoft has originally planned the end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7 machines on November 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<h3>But there are still sources for Windows 7 Professional PCs<\/h3>\n<p>Ed Bott also mentioned, that there are still many sources to buy or ship a Windows 7 PC (see his article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/you-have-one-month-left-to-buy-a-windows-7-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You have one month left to buy a Windows 7 PC<\/a> for details).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Existing inventory \u2013 <\/strong>OEMs are allowed to sell their stock with Windows 7 machines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Downgrade rights \u2013 <\/strong>Users who are buying a Windows 10 Pro system obtains a downgrade right to Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8.1 Pro.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also customers with volume license agreements are able to install customized Windows 7 Professional\/Enterprise and Windows 8.1 Pro\/Enterprise images on new machines. Also users who own OEM system builder licenses (or retail upgrade licenses) are able to install a copy of Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8.1 Pro on a new machine. That has been mentioned within the ZDNet article. So at a first glance, there are many options to buy a Windows 7 machine after Nov 1, 2016. But wait, there is more \u2026<\/p>\n<h3>But wait: The end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7 is October 2017!<\/h3>\n<p>After I published a German <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/windows-7-und-8-1-laufen-ab-november-bei-oems-aus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>, a blog reader contacted me via e-mail and forwarded a statement from Fujitsu concerning the end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7. The Fujitsu statement (see the text below) is in German. With date August 31, 2016, Fujitsu informing German customers about an \"Important update regarding changing from Windows 7 to Windows 10\". Here is the major topic (freely translated).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft has announced that licensing of pre-installed Windows 7 will end at 10\/31\/2016.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a high demand, Microsoft decided, to prolong the End-of-Life (EOL) date for Windows 7 systems for an additional year to October 2017. Also support for Windows 7 will be available until 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it seems that OEMs are able to ship systems with Windows 7 SP 1 Professional till October 31, 2017. So I guess also other OEMs are able to license Windows 7 Professional on their machines till October 2017. The whole Fujitsu statement in German is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update November 3, 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0Due to many articles at US internet sites I contacted Fujitsu. A speaker told me, the statement shown below is still true &#8211; the\u00a0End-of-Life (EOL) date for Windows 7 systems is October 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Wichtiges Update zur Umstellung von Windows 7 auf Windows 10<\/h3>\n<h6>31.08.2016<\/h6>\n<p>Sehr geehrter Herr xxx,<\/p>\n<p>im Juli haben wir Sie dar\u00fcber informiert, dass Microsoft die Lizensierung von bei Auslieferung vorinstalliertem Windows 7 zum 31.10.2016 nicht mehr unterst\u00fctzen wird.<\/p>\n<p>Auf Grund vielfacher R\u00fcckmeldungen zu diesem Thema hat sich Microsoft nun entschieden, <strong>diesen End-of-Life (EOL)-Termin f\u00fcr Windows 7 Systeme um ein Jahr zu verschieben \u2013 auf Oktober 2017<\/strong>. Auch der Support-Zeitraum f\u00fcr Windows 7 wird entsprechend bis 2020 verl\u00e4ngert.<\/p>\n<p>Als Partner Ihres Vertrauens m\u00f6chten wir Sie \u00fcber folgende Optionen informieren, die sich f\u00fcr Sie anbieten:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sichern Sie sich die Ger\u00e4te mit <u>vorinstalliertem<\/u> Windows 7 Professional und mit Windows 10 Pro-Lizenz bis Oktober 2016 <\/strong>\u2013 zu wettbewerbsf\u00e4higen Preisen (ab November 2016 werden die Preise f\u00fcr diese Option auf Grund von zulieferbedingten Preiserh\u00f6hungen steigen)<\/li>\n<li>Ger\u00e4te, auf denen Windows 10 Pro vorinstalliert wird, sind von dieser \u00c4nderung nicht betroffen und Sie k\u00f6nnen hier jederzeit Ihr Downgrade-Recht auf Windows 7 in Anspruch nehmen<\/li>\n<li>Falls ihr Unternehmen einen Microsoft Volumenlizenzvertrag h\u00e4lt, k\u00f6nnen wir Sie in der Umsetzung dieses Downgrade-Rechtes \u00fcber unseren Customizing Services \u201emade4you\" unterst\u00fctzen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wof\u00fcr Sie sich hier auch entscheiden, das Fujitsu Portfolio bietet Ihnen immer das optimal passende Ger\u00e4t f\u00fcr Ihre Anforderung.<br \/>\nBesuchen Sie bitte unsere Webseite und entdecken Sie weitere Produkt-Highlights:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171103085113\/http:\/\/www.fujitsu.com\/fts\/products\/computing\/pc\/\">www.fujitsu.com\/fts\/products\/computing\/pc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wir beraten Sie gerne in der Entscheidung, welche L\u00f6sung die f\u00fcr Sie Sinnvollste ist.<\/p>\n<p>Mit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knuth Molzen<\/strong><br \/>\nSenior Director Client Computing Devices Central Europe<br \/>\nMitglied der Gesch\u00e4ftsleitung<br \/>\nFujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]My colleague Ed Bott has published on September 30, 2016, the article You have one month left to buy a Windows 7 PC, suggesting, that OEMs are reaching the end-of-sales deadline for Windows 7 machines on November 1, 2016. That's &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/10\/06\/no-you-havent-just-a-month-to-buy-oem-windows-7-pcs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[445,444,17],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-end-of-sales","tag-oem","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}