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Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website



From Computerworld:
The company's policies for shutting off sales to retailers and shipping licenses to OEMS (original equipment manufacturers) are posted on its site, which was recently updated to show that Windows 7's "retail end of sales" date was Oct. 30.

The next deadline, marked as "End of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled," will be Oct. 30, 2014, less than a year away.
  Microsoft ends Windows 7 retail sales