Microsoft to cease support for Vista, any options for a laptop just purchased?

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Published on 2010-04-15T08:51:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 9:23 UTC
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According to an article today in The Register, Microsoft will no longer support Vista from the end of this month.

I have a laptop that is not even a year old using an operating system that will not even have had a year's support.

What are my options?

I've heard that upgrading to Windows 7 is nearly impossible.

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