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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 10:38 PM EDT

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Authored by: Patrick Corrigan on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 07:19 PM EDT

> But what about the companies that have boat loads of win 7 licenses they
are sitting on that they want to use on new hardware?

Most large organizations do not push out new OS versions immediately. They wait
until they are sure all of their applications (and, in this case, their users)
are compatible. They will typically buy new hardware with a license that allows
downgrading from the currently-shipping OS and then allows them to upgrade
later. If the new PCs won't run Windows 7, or can't be shipped with Windows 7
and upgraded to 8 later, but MS and the hardware manufacturers will have serious
problems with their largest customers.

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