--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Nabby, you've inadvertently answered a long held question > > of mine: could I get Win7 on a new computer? > > This is how Microsoft use their muscles in Europe, I don't know > about across the water where they developed this nonsense. Even here > you could get WIN7 on a new PC if you buy an outgoing model.
With laptops, you're usually dealing with a big company that's strongly tied into MSFT. With specialty vendors of desktop systems, you're more likely to find flexibility in choice in OS. The company I buy my desktop systems from, http://www.endpcnoise.com/ is still offering Win 7, along with Win 8, Linux, or no OS. If you want to go to the trouble and expense, you might be able to buy a copy of Win 7, wipe your hard drive, and install Win 7 on your new laptop. However, laptops tend to have proprietary hardware, and there's the possibility that it needs drivers that are only available under Win 8.
