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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: 5, Informative) by number6 on Sunday March 19 2017, @01:11PM (3 children)
Copied from this Slashdot Post [slashdot.org]
How to Install Windows 7 on Kaby Lake/Cannon Lake
New Intel CPUs do support Windows 7, all you need is:
1. A PCIe USB3 expansion card (to get the USB mouse/keyboard working, or use a PS/2 keyboard/mouse)
For Intel graphics support:
1. Download the latest Intel video driver
2. Unpack the driver zip, edit the igdlh64.inf file.
3. Find the latest w7_ line (iSKLD_w7 for skylake, iBXTD_W7 for brasswell, etc)
4. Replace the DEV_XXXX with device ID of your system's GPU (look it up in control panel > display adapter > properties > hardware id)
5. If the latest driver doesn't work, try the second latest, then third latest, so on.
6. Install the video driver, you'll get a unsigned driver warning, ignore it, install it, reboot.
7. Enter BIOS, play with the "Legacy/Compatibility" video setting, the wrong setting will get you a blank or blue screen, the right setting will get you to windows normally.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jcross on Sunday March 19 2017, @03:49PM
Good grief, and people used to complain about Linux being hard to install. How the tables have turned!
Last time I installed Windows (on a VM), I was shocked at how crummy the process design was. It would ask for input, then churn for an indeterminate time, then ask for input again. Contrast with installing Ubuntu, which gets all the info up front, then does the rest of the job by itself. Now if you need to do all this bullshit to get hardware working with Windows, it's about like installing Linux on bleeding-edge hardware back in the day. Granted one could just install 10, but there are plenty of reasons to avoid that, and the alternatives really start to look attractive...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @12:28AM
is this for real?
people who buy the high end new stuff do not know how to troubleshoot it?
And so the instructions are "use a pcie USB3 card" or ps2 connectors?
The rest is for integrated graphics that few actual geeks would use since even discrete video costs $25 for something usually better? i guess i will go back under a rock now
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday March 20 2017, @11:07AM
How to Install Windows 7 on Kaby Lake/Cannon Lake...
So the old joke about installing the Linux virus [gnu.org] has come true...
Basic Installation
Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version of glibc installed, and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’.
(1) Put the attachment into the appropriate directory eg. /usr/src.
(2) Type ‘tar xvzf evilmalware.tar.gz’ to extract the source files for this virus.
(3) ‘cd’ to the directory containing the virus' source code and type ‘./configure’ to configure the virus for your system. If you're using ‘csh’ on an old version of System V, you might need to type ‘sh ./configure’ instead to prevent ‘csh’ from trying to execute ‘configure’ itself.
(4) Type ‘make’ to compile the package. You may need to be logged in as root to do this.
(5) Optionally, type ‘make check_payable’ to run any self-tests that come with the virus, and send a large donation to an unnumbered Swiss bank account.
(6) Type ‘make install’ to install the virus and any spyware, trojans pornography, penis enlargement adverts and DDoS attacks that come with it.
(7) You may now configure your preferred malware behaviour in /etc/evilmalware.conf.
...but in windows.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.