Monday, March 10, 2014

3 ways to get a new Windows 7 PC in the Windows 8 era

If any word most accurately describes Windows 8, it’s “divisive.” Microsoft’s finger-first, device-agnostic reimagining of Windows draws haters like flies and has played some parthow large a part is up in the airin driving PC sales off a cliff since its launch. Even so, Microsoft isn’t backing down, and Windows 8 and its Live Tiles are darn near ubiquitous in stores.

Don’t think you’re a hostage to Microsoft’s hubris, however.

While Windows 8 indeed lurks inside the vast majority of consumer PCs sold today, Windows 7 is by no means dead and gone. In fact, PC purists pining for the halcyon days of Windows 7 have a wealth of ways to acquire a PC powered by their operating system of choice. It just takes a little digging.Buy a prebuilt PC

Simply waltzing into a Best Buy and asking for a Windows 7 PC won’t get you far. “We don’t carry Windows 7 anymore. It was phased out last year,” a blue-shirted salesperson told PCWorld at a Dedham, Massachusetts, storeand that was 13 months ago. A recent check at a Walmart in New Hampshire was similarly fruitless.

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