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It sounds like there are a bunch of drivers/controllers on the software side that don't support Win7. I seriously doubt that you won't be able to install/boot W
by dooglius 10y ago
It sounds like there are a bunch of drivers/controllers on the software side that don't support Win7. I seriously doubt that you won't be able to install/boot Win7 on this (I mean modern x86 is still backward-compatible with 16-bit mode!) but will probably end up with sub-optimal power performance and graphics capabilities, and any other niceties that come from platform drivers.
- dlp211 10y agoDisclaimer: I work at MSFT, views are my own, etc. I believe this is pretty much it. It is my understanding that there are a ton of features on a processor today that are not simply the x86/amd64 instruction set. These things require the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to be updated in order to support them. This is all code written in x86/amd64 ASM in order to interface with the processor and MSFT simply will no longer backport this code to its older OSes.