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I walked into one of the big box stores with a dozen
different laptops on display and every blasted one
was being sold with Windows 8.

It looks like Microsoft has already started leaning on
every OEM to STOP bundling Win 7 with their hardware
and bundle Win8 with their systems instead, even
on the slow cheap notebook computers and systems
without multi-touch screens to do the pinch minimize etc.

The MS Life Cycle page says availability is "To be determined" for
Win7.
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