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.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:20AM (2 children)
It looks like I'll be moving to BSD or Linux sooner than I planned. flamebait response. dont care what you do, or why, its irrelevant to the article. deal.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Dunbal on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:31AM (1 child)
Yet somehow you think that we care that you don't care.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @03:41AM
Now, Dunbal, it's not AC's fault that he was born an ugly baby, and his parents and grandparents abandoned him. Nor is it his fault that his shoe size is greater than his IQ. He didn't ask to be born that way. Poor little special snowflake - nobody appreciates him - SOB!! Let me get that world's smallest violin, and play him a tune.