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Microsoft Blocks Updates for New CPUs on Windows 7 and 8.1

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 19 2017, @01:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-updates-for-you dept.

Celestial writes:

Microsoft Windows 7 or 8.1 users on Intel Kaby Lake or AMD Ryzen CPUs will not be able to download Windows updates.

Microsoft announced some time ago that new silicon as the company called it back then would not be officially supported on Windows 7 or 8.1.

This meant basically that only Windows 10 would support Intel's, AMD's and Qualcomm's new processors, while Windows 7 or 8.1 would not.

This does not mean that Windows 7 or 8.1 won't install on machines running these new processors, but that Microsoft (and the manufacturer) won't offer any form of support for those devices.

A new support page on the Microsoft website suggests that users who run an unsupported processor on an older version of Windows -- read Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 -- won't be able to scan for or download Windows updates anymore.

Users will get the following error message when they run the scan:

Unsupported Hardware
Your PC uses a processor that isn't supported on this version of Windows and you won't receive updates.

It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned.

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