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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) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 20 2017, @07:59AM
I have to point out that most tablets are Linux. Well, Android, but Android uses the Linux kernel. Basically it's open source. Except, what few people realize is, your phone/tablet/whatever running Android generally belongs to the telco or whoever provided it. Unless the device is rooted, the device belongs to the supplier, not to the end user. If the device belongs to the supplier, then no, the end user cannot deem the device as "secure". The one exception to that rule, seems to be Apple's phones. They claim that they can't recover files from their phones, so maybe the device really does belong to the end user. Except - walled garden.