Clock is ticking for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 on new PCs as Microsoft focuses on Windows 10

Published January 26, 2016

File photo - A man works on a laptop computer near a Windows 10 display at Microsoft Build in San Francisco, Calif. April 29, 2015. (REUTERS/Robert Galbraith )

Microsoft has published a list of new PCs that will be supported on older versions of Windows -- but only for the next year and a half.

This list is not final and “will be continually updated in the coming months,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email sent to Foxnews.com.

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