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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @09:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @09:45PM (#481265)

    For best results you want:
    1) A CPU with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU, both of which are forms of "directed I/O" which allow a hypervisor to give exclusive access to a given PCIe device to a single VM
    2) A separate dGPU, one which is *not* being used to drive your monitor
    3) The know-how to configure this feature, called "GPU Passthrough."

    Looks promising, and I'd love to try this @work, but I'm sure the PHB won't release the funds (he begrudges spending money on our critical production systems, yet will still go out any buy fscking Macs that we don't fscking well use...however, it might be an idea to try this the next time I 'reshuffle' my home systems (my firewall needs more memory and CPU/cores, so my current CAD/CAE box is an obvious candidate).

    I've never gotten to try this myself but have seen youtube demos of the process, including one where a machine had 3 GPUs, a big beefy i7 something or other, and made TWO "virtual gaming machines" on it while reserving the onboard IGP for the host OS's use.

    I'll have a look, cheers.
    (sadly I missed out on getting my hands on a fully working but minus the hard disks 32 core system a few weeks back which might have been ideal for this for the princely sum of 30 USD..)