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Microsoft has extended the duration and scope of support for Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems running on Skylake chips:
Microsoft today repudiated an early retirement date for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support, saying that it will patch those operating systems on PCs running Intel's Skylake silicon until 2020 and 2023, respectively.
The move was a complete rollback of a January [decree] that Microsoft called a "clarification" of its support policy. Under the January plan, Microsoft would have ended most support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on July 17, 2017, if the operating systems were powering machines equipped with Intel's now-current Skylake processor family. At the time, Microsoft attributed the decision to Windows 7's age and the hassle that Microsoft and OEMs would have to go through to ensure the 2009 operating system ran on Intel's latest architecture. In March, Microsoft retreated from the original mandate, saying then that it was extending the support drop-dead date by a year, to July 18, 2018. After that date, Microsoft said, it and its computer-making partners would not guarantee that they would revise device drivers to support Windows 7 and 8.1 on newer hardware.
[...] The one support rule that Microsoft did not reverse was its decision to support only Windows 10 on Intel's Skylake successor, an architecture dubbed "Kaby Lake;" and on AMD's next-generation "Bristol Ridge." That remained in place today.
Also at The Register and Windows.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tisI on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:53PM
The only M$ thing I have is an HP laptop from ~2007 or 8 w/ Vista on it.
I pull it out annually in the spring to run tax prep software.
It's never been updated, which is why it still runs fairly snappy.
It doesn't see the WWW except for when said tax software needs to update it's tax tables.
Vista is a POS as it constantly nags and throws popups in your face anytime you use it, anything it can do to get in your way, but for a day or two, I can stomach the abortion.
I honestly fail to see any attraction to using any M$ product. It's like paying to be sodomized.
For the record: FreeBSD 10.2.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @05:43PM
Hey! I have a laptop with windows 8.1 on it, too!
It doesn't see the WWW except for when said tax software needs to update it's tax tables.
But mine has never seen any kind of network when running windows. Linux lives on the bootable partition, but sometimes I boot up the windows partition, not to actually do anything, but just to point and giggle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:33PM
Do yourself a favor and turn off the indexer and the prefetcher. It will run a lot better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @01:26AM
I honestly fail to see any attraction to using any M$ product. It's like paying to be sodomized.
Followed by:
Do yourself a favor and turn off the indexer and the prefetcher. It will run a lot better.
Yes, indeed! If you are being sodomized by Micro$oft, the last thing you want is for the system to lag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @01:48AM
Actually, a lot of the updates to Vista improved things too. It pretty much ended up being Windows 7 with a slightly different interface and a way too aggressive indexer and prefetch. Of course, with the way Windows 7 has gone to shit, Vista may be the same thing.