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

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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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @03:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @03:37AM (#481029)

    He just said virtualbox. Since the whole point of the exercise is to avoid Microsoft's shiny new policies, you should install it in Linux. There's nothing to look out for, step 1 is literally the same as installing any other package from your package manager.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday March 19 2017, @01:33PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Sunday March 19 2017, @01:33PM (#481128)

    Ahhh, didn't get virtualbox was the name of the package, thought it was a generic term.

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