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Microsoft blocked the delivery of Windows Updates recently to Windows 7 and 8.1 devices powered by a next-generation processor.
The company announced the support change in January 2017. Broken down to the essentials, it means that Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Bristol Ridge processors are only support by Windows 10, and not older versions of Windows.
To hammer that home, Microsoft made the decision to block Windows Update on Windows 7 or 8.1 PCs with those next generation processors.
The company introduced patches, KB4012218 and KB4012219 for instance, which introduced process generation and hardware support detection on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems.
Windows users who run Windows Update get the unsupported hardware error prompt when they try to scan for and download the latest patches for their -- still supported -- operating system.
GitHub user zeffy made the decision to take a closer look at how the actual blocking is done on the operating system level.
Details on exactly what was done are available in the article.
Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/04/18/bypass-for-windows-update-lock-for-modern-processors-found/
This will be especially handy for those whose machines were entitled to updates but were mistakenly blocked from receiving them.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @04:27PM (1 child)
I'm curious if the services done using Windows could be done with available open and free software?
(Why to run Windows in a VM ought to be obvious ;-)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 21 2017, @05:04PM
It really depends on what you're talking about.
Take a legacy Windows desktop application (yuk) and offer it to customers over the internet, virtualized with RDP access. Probably always will need Windows. (Thank God that I never have to touch a project like that!)
Developing a modern application? Well you could pick your choice of technologies. (Like I did years ago.) Some projects pick .NET because they perceive they can get a lot of cheap developers. And not necessarily US citizens.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.