Actually, I expect that most 7 users are on Nehalem or Sandy Bridge machines, or something of those generations. Most new hardware buyers are going to be getting a new OS license. Us enthusiasts are anomolous.
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It's Intel's job to please their shareholders, even if it means sodomizing their customers.
That's a fair point. I imagine most are still using Haswell Refresh at this point, and if the move is made to go to 10, going to Skylake at the same time makes sense. But there's no guarantee that 10 is going to get any kind of corporate adoption so unless Intel wants to sell Haswell Refresh until 2020 Intel can't just abandon 7 so quickly even if MS is trying their hardest to force 10 down people's throats.
Windows 7 doesn't work on tablets/2in1. What do you think businesses install there? Do you think they reinstall Surface Books with Windows 7?
Its no different on the Mac side, what to use latest office? Yosemite is the minimum.
o365 alone makes a lot of companies move if they didn't already.
Well, there are a lot of other computers besides tablets and 2 in ones. I work for a very large university, and we buy mostly laptops and desktops. And yes, all new hardware is re-formatted with Win 7.
And yes, all new hardware is re-formatted with Win 7.
Is that to avoid the uh, data collection aspect of Win10 or what?
He's kinda right, though. Win7 is quite common.
That being said, how common is Win7 on Skylake hardware? That's the relevant question. Answer: not very.
Yes, and that goes for new computers they buy too. That's why they often run Windows 7 on those as well. They want to have the same OS version across all computers if possible. Easier for support and maintenance that way.Lots of companies got new PCs/Laptops with Win 8.1 and downgraded them to Win 7 for compatibility reasons. The majority of corporate today operates Win 7 still.
Companies moved to Windows 7 really quickly. People have all sorts of weird notions what triggers and dont trigger corporate OS moves.
I don't understand the mentality of putting dGPUs with equal performance to iGPU in some laptop models.
http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Dell-Inspiron-17-5759-5118-Notebook.156146.0.html
This one has AMD R5 M335 which is more or less the same performance-wise as HD 520 with dual-channel RAM.
The last time this happened was Lenovo putting GT610 with HD4000, the dGPU was arguably superfluous as it was hardly faster than HD4000.
The manufacturers are still thinking dGPUs are always better than iGPU or what?
Considering that Microsoft ended retail sales on Windows 7 boxed copy on October 31, 2013 and retail PC sales on October 31, 2014 some people in this thread are ridiculous expecting Intel to provide proper driver support for it on a 2015 product as no retail Skylake system can even come installed with Windows 7 on it.
DUH!!! Because they know customers are ignorant.This one has AMD R5 M335 which is more or less the same performance-wise as HD 520 with dual-channel RAM.
The last time this happened was Lenovo putting GT610 with HD4000, the dGPU was arguably superfluous as it was hardly faster than HD4000.
The manufacturers are still thinking dGPUs are always better than iGPU or what?
Bingo.I agree, but using a dgpu lets more of the tdp to be used by the cpu.
You conveniently forgot to mention that Microsoft still sells Windows 7 Professional OEM. And, while I have no first-hand knowledge of it, I'm pretty certain that they still sell Windows 7 Enterprise site-licenses too.