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The lack of consumer demand for Windows 8 prompted Microsoft to keep Windows 7 alive longer than expected. That means Windows 7's cutoff date should have been in October 2014, two years after the launch of Windows 8. Microsoft typically sets the end-of-sales date for each version of Windows two years after the release of a new version. Windows 7 users may not realize it, but they actually caught a break.

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For Microsoft, it's a necessary step toward its goal of having Windows 10 power 1 billion devices, which underscores the company's message that the new software can tie together PCs, tablets and mobile phones with apps that can run on any of them.

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The deadline puts pressure on consumers who have grown comfortable with Windows 7 and are reluctant to upgrade their operating system if they buy a new PC. The lone exception will be businesses with license agreements that entitle them to choose which version of Windows they want preinstalled. After that date, the only choice for consumers will be to purchase new computers with Windows 10 installed.

Updated late October, Microsoft's "Windows lifecycle fact sheet" shows October 31, 2016, as the "end of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled" for both Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1, a change spotted by CNET sister site ZDNet. Still want to buy a PC that comes with Windows 7 or 8.1 from the get-go? You've got less than a year.

Windows 7 has another year to go before it will no longer be preinstalled on new PCs.