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Counterpoint: "HP Bringing Back Windows 7 PCs? Not so fast..."[1]. TL;DR: this is a marketing tactic, and HP is actually offering fewer systems with Windows 7 than it was last year.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/hp-bringing-back-windows-7-pcs-not-so-f...

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Isn't it only natural that they sold a lot of Windows 7 PCs last year, as Windows 8 was only recently released?

Sure. The point is, "bringing back" implies that there was a period of time where Windows 7 PCs weren't being offered by HP, which appears not to be the case.

I think the idea is that Windows 7 is done, new computers moving forward will have 8. In the same sense that I can't go to a Honda dealership and buy a brand new 2011 Honda Civic. (I could if they have one still in inventory, but they're not getting any new ones)

But in Microsoft's vision of 2014, the number of systems being offered with Windows 7 should be zero.

What makes you say that? You have always been able to purchase previous versions for a few years after the release of the latest...

You've been able to buy it installed on a machine offered by a major hardware vendor and publicly offered in their catalog? Or just been able to buy the install disks?

> You've been able to buy it installed on a machine offered by a major hardware vendor and publicly offered in their catalog?

Yes.

You could buy PCs preloaded with Windows XP for the first couple years of Vista's availability.

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