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Microsoft refuses to support 'next-gen' CPUs in Windows 7/8 Systems
cooolguy32:
why tho
McJob:
I don't see a problem here. Intel and AMD have been working a lot with Microsoft on the new series for some interesting functionality (which you can see in the linked news article at the bottom of the support article) which isn't supoorted in old and outdated operating systems. You would have to be handicapped to think it's a good idea to buy new hardware for an old OS.
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Willco2 on March 16, 2017, 09:45:41 PM ---Would this mean bad news for (some) companies in about ~5 years from now? They'll be forced to upgrade to some kind of form of Windows 10 just so they can support modern CPUs and such. Not sure if Windows Server 2008 R2/Server 2012 is being widely phased out yet tho so I could be completely wrong
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What's likely going to happen is that this is going to force someone's hand to make a patch to remove this restriction. It's completely arbitrary and has no basis in reality whatsoever, this is just more overreaching bullstuff M$ is trying to do to force you into their latest unnecessarily pricy piece of software There might even be places that have "patches" to update the kernel to handle the newer CPUs better.
But instead of people actually bothering to do this... Most will probably just give in to Microsoft's desperate pushing, which makes me very sad.
Nonnel:
good. upgrade, you dorks
SteveJenkins:
can someone inform me what the issue is with upgrading to windows 10?