If you want to buy a new Windows 7 computer, then you better hurry

As positive as the reception has been for Microsoft’s new Windows 10 — generally speaking — lots and lots of people still love Windows 7, the PC operating system first released in October 2009. Believe it or not, you could actually still buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed. But those devices are about to get a lot harder to find. According to a new chart on an official Microsoft website, there won’t be any new shipments of PCs with Windows 7 Professional pre-installed after October 31 next year, signaling the operating system’s ongoing march to the grave. This doesn’t mean you won’t be able to buy a Windows 7 PC at all after that date, as noted by ZDNet’s Ed Bott — it just means that stores like Best Buy are selling their final inventory of Windows 7 computers, and they’ll vanish fast as reserves run out. Meanwhile, Windows 7 is still the most-used PC operating system in the world, and there are plenty of copies out there in the wild, even though Microsoft has officially stopped shipping copies to stores. So if you were really dedicated, you could buy a new copy and install it on any other PC.