Metro haters beware: 2014 will be the end of new Windows 7 PCs

Metro haters beware: 2014 will be the end of new Windows 7 PCs:
If you're looking to buy a new PC and you hate the idea of looking at Live Tiles, then you'd better get a new PC within the next year or so. As ZDNet points out, Microsoft has told its manufacturing partners that they can keep selling new Windows 7-based PCs through October 30th, 2014, which means that by this time next year every new PC that OEMs release will come preloaded with Windows 8. Microsoft has also announced that it's officially stopped selling Windows 7 box copies at retail.

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