{"id":7060,"date":"2014-02-18T07:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:32:45","slug":"microsoft-extends-windows-7-shelf-life-as-windows-8-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-extends-windows-7-shelf-life-as-windows-8-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft extends Windows 7 shelf life as Windows 8 struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from TechRadar&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Microsoft extends Windows 7 shelf life as Windows 8 struggles<\/h2>\n<p>It seems that Windows 7 will remain on sale to business users until at least early 2015, if not longer, following a change to Microsoft&#8217;s Windows lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by ZDNet, the updated lifecycle indicates that Microsoft has not yet decided on an end-date for the OS and could be a long way off yet.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has promised to give businesses at least a year&#8217;s warning before it kills off Windows 7 Professional.<\/p>\n<p>Doing a 180<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the company announced that it was forbidding new PCs to be preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate after October 31 2014. This would mean that any new hardware customers would be pushed onto Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft hinted that end-of-sale date was the same for Windows 7 Professional. Later it backtracked when business customers threw up their hands in horror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readability.com\/articles\/xv2q8o42\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this article\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from TechRadar&#8230; Microsoft extends Windows 7 shelf life as Windows 8 struggles It seems that Windows 7 will remain on sale to business users until at least early 2015, if not longer, following a change to Microsoft&#8217;s Windows lifecycle. As spotted by ZDNet, the updated lifecycle indicates that Microsoft has not yet decided on an\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-extends-windows-7-shelf-life-as-windows-8-struggles\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}