New Hardware? Your Win7-8x are dead dead dead

[tangor]

Microsoft has cut software updates and tweaks for computers powered by Intel and AMD's latest-generation processors and running old versions of Windows.

The Redmond giant is no longer serving software fixes to PCs and other systems that run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on Intel's fresh new Kaby Lake or AMD's hot-off-the-fab Ryzen chips. Those machines will now be required to update to Windows 10 in order to obtain future improvements. Critical security patches will still be offered for now, though.

Microsoft argues this is all because it can't be bothered supporting the latest silicon, such as Intel's 7th-gen Core series, on anything other than Windows 10. To us, it looks like a convenient way of forcing people onto the newest build of its operating system.

[theregister.co.uk...]

If you have new hardware, DON'T install that extra Win7/8x copy you have. It will not be supported.

[keyplyr]

Great news. These old OS versions are responsible for the spread of infections worldwide. People need to let go and move on to stable, safer Windows 10.

We've all been paying the price for these archaic OSs for way too long. 10 is just so much easier and has so many added features, especially on hardware built for 10.

[tangor]

All said is true, but then again, there are those with perfectly happy OLD Hardware who won't be making that move any time soon. Perhaps 10 years from now.

Meanwhile, MS will continue security updates for 7 and 8x until their end of life on the old hardware.