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, 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".