I recently purchased a nice refurbished Lenovo laptop on Ebay with windows 7 
on it.

A few months ago I called Dell and had a specific model I wanted and asked 
for it with Windows 7 on it and they would not do it even though the same 
model was available with 7 on it 8 months earlier.  Since 7 is still a 
supported OS I feel vendors should give us the choice.

If you are not to picky as to what you want, Some of the major vendors, 
Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba etc. still have a few models available with 7 on them. 
I wouldn't wait to long to check them out though.

I would take the Windows 8 laptop back.

The vendors and Microsoft shouldn't dictate what we buy and in my case, they 
didn't.

Howard #3