Mary Jo Foley:

Microsoft is going to allow OEMs to continue to build and sell new PCs with Windows 7 Professional preinstalled beyond October 2014, the original date that would have been the cutoff under the company’s normal sales lifecycle.

They’re going to try to force Windows 8 down consumer’s throats but enterprise customers won’t have it until they get it looking just like Windows 7 again. A lot of potholes on that road to the future of computing.