After October 31st, you will no longer be able to purchase the Home Basic , Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Windows 7 . The Professional version will still be available, and Microsoft has yet to announce when that will stop.
If you are planning to purchase or build a new PC and want to run Windows 7 Home or Ultimate, you need to buy your Windows license before the end of the month.
Microsoft Lifecycle Fact Sheet – End of sales .
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appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal ) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO . Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page , and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site .
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Rants and musings on topics of interest. Sometimes about Windows, Linux, security and cool software.
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