>http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/01/microsoft-stops-selling-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-to-computer-makers/
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>With no new machines with those OSs preinstalled being sold, anyone wanting one is limited to stock still in the channel. Get 'em while they're lukewarm :-/
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>FWIW I don't agree with the link's penultimate sentence - compared to Win7 or 8.1, Win10 is a disaster from a user privacy POV.

I agree with your last sentence - but for real privacy even Win7 should be sandboxed, as MS can retrofit unwanted behavior to older OS.
In desktop the host OS is already non MS, next laptop will be bought with an eye to run a non MS host OS.
And that definition includes hypervisors ;-)