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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @06:28AM (3 children)
You're so full of shit it hurts, where to even begin. Sigh.
Are you saying there are more "Linux users" that only surf the web? Actually usually the users that are more knowledgeable tend to do more on computers. You really think a random tablet is more secure, really? Without having any idea what kind of security policies are in place and even if it spies on you like so many lovely pieces of proprietary software do these days? Easier to use you say... when you get a new gadget, you need to learn to use it, it makes little difference whether you learn GNU/Linux or some lame tablet thing. And drivers, eh? Are you aware that Linux runs from phones to supercomputers, unlike any other operating system? Thought so... The only BS I see so far is some hairy card carrying windoze luser spouting random crap at people here. Also, almost all computers you purchase these days come with a mandatory windoze license so it's not like most people haven't got one already.
And obviously you don't even mention freedom, the number one point of using GNU/Linux. Do you realize you seem as unbiased as North Korea you retarded fucker?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday March 19 2017, @12:55PM (2 children)
Yeah i find this attitude perplexing, especially on a site where users are presumably more technical. Linux is superior in every way for the technical user. Its development tools are superlative. Every layer is robust enough to handle the most intensive tasks in the world. You can optimize your system down to its foundation and not lose performance to malware/spyware. And for me best of all is you can keep peeking under the hood and learning as you go. The heuristic opportunities there are endless, and you never run into a wall where you have to pay more or take a course or sit on the phone for hours talking to some fellow in India who has less clue than you do.
And that's for technical users. Non-technical users can finally breathe a sigh of relief that Norton/McAfee have finally stopped bugging them and that MS itself has stopped hitting them up for money. Everything just works.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @01:45PM (1 child)
The explanation is the usual one, follow the money. Hairy is a MS guy through and through.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! -- Upton Sinclair
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday March 19 2017, @07:52PM
Poor Hairyfeet! I have a nice warm blankie and cup o' hot chocolate for him! This is only a relapse, he'll get over it as soon as the next Micro$oft patch comes out. But it does look like he has taken to hawking tablets for a living, rather than attempting the impossible, fixing Windows machines. Not much call for fixing tablets, especially when they are already "fixed".