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Slightly mis-leading headline....bug it's direct from the register. tldr; the headline should read "Windows 10 is the only Windows OS that will support latest p
by jcbeard 10y ago
Slightly mis-leading headline....bug it's direct from the register. tldr; the headline should read "Windows 10 is the only Windows OS that will support latest processors." Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. Hopefully that'll free them up a bit to do more interesting stuff.
- quonn 10y ago> Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. It seems they are supporting old hardware on each new OS. What they are not supporting is new hardware on an old OS.
- flamedoge 10y agoI'm pretty sure new hardware can run old OS. It's just new features won't be utilized.
- wvenable 10y agoYeah, that's forwards compatibility not backwards compatibility. In many cases, this situation is already here. My laptop came with Windows 8 and if I ran Windows 7 on it, it would work, but many of the newer power management and performance features wouldn't work.
- hiram112 10y agoInterestingly, I've been a hardcore Dell fan for many years with many tens of thousands of dollars in purchases - home and work. I bought an outlet Latitude two weeks ago. It came with Win 8 which is awful. It would not run Win 7, no matter how many tricks I tried (numerous driver issues). I do not want Win 10. The Dell is being returned, and I am buying my first ever personal MacBook (I'm done with Linux on the laptop, too - too busy these days to deal with the typical issues that have plagued Linux for 15 years now). I'm done with Microsoft and any company that wants to tie themselves to them: Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, etc.
- godzillabrennus 10y agoYou are not alone. You literally have to pay me to use a Microsoft Windows device and I'm not cheap. I was such a Windows fanboy in the late 90's early 2000's when Win2k and Win XP were the platforms that were shipping. Having lived through those days till now I'm convinced that Microsoft can never build a better user experience than Windows 2000 provided.
- raesene9 10y agoBetter is of course subjective, and I might suggest a hint of rose-tinted glasses there. I've been using Windows professionally since Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and whilst sure I miss some of the simplicity and cleanness of older versions, every time I actually have to use one of the old versions I'm constantly bumping into annoyances and missing features that I've gotten used to with Windows 10 One small but important, to me, example ie being able to resize command shell windows by dragging them! and easy copy/paste !
- nitrogen 10y agoYou don't have to use cmd.exe for your terminal. I used to use xterm via Cygwin back in the day.
- wvenable 10y agoI'm running Windows 10 now (upgraded just before the deadline) and I quite like it. It only takes a bit of time to disable enough to make it look/act like a better version of Windows 7.
- infodroid 10y agoIt is strange that most of the news sites currently covering the story have misleading or ambiguous headlines: Microsoft made 'em do it: The latest Kaby Lake, Zen chips will support only Windows 10 (PCWorld) Windows 10 Or Else? Intel's New 'Kaby Lake' Chip Won't Support Windows 7, 8 (Forbes) Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD's Zen processors will only support Windows 10 (PC Gamer) From this point forward, all Intel and AMD CPUs are Windows 10-only (ExtremeTech) Intel's latest CPUs will only support Windows 10 (TechRadar)
- keithbohler 10y agoGotta love the fact that "most" (not all) news outlets want to blow up a topic.
- gfody 10y agoIt's like any time there's a non-story that any one of them spin into some controversial click-bait they all have to follow suit to avoid being scooped. Journalistic integrity for internet news sites seems to be at an all time low.
- api 10y agoJournalism is dead.
- CyberDildonics 10y agoThey aren't journalists, they are marketing copywriters. News has turned into advertisements and no seems to want to accept it. Any article about a product or company was payed for by a PR company that was payed by the company in the article. Many times they will write large parts of the article themselves.
- frik 10y agoWindows 10 isn't very popular, and that is good. No other operating system is as hostile to the users privacy, and certainly no desktop operating system where everyone stores many private files. And not just personal files, but think of all the doctors offices, lawyers - which makes Win10 illegal to use in many countries, as it transfers automatically your key strokes, microphone samples, screenshots, search history, application list, hardware configuration and what not else that god forbids to dozens of domains that have not even Microsoft in it's name. And the domains and IPs ate whitelisted in the signed 64-bit kernel mode part of Win10 network layer. Good night, no work around possible. Except you carry a hardware firewall around attached to your laptop. So it's good that the "free" (free to exchange for a Win7/8 license dongled to one mainboard) Win10 failed all expectations and got little uptake. Most companies are still on Win7 and all literated users too beside some foolished fanboys/early adopters/noobs. Many reverted back to Win7 after the got Win10 tricked "by accident". XBoxOne failed spectacular too being far far behind PS4 and even WiiU sales. And WinMobile/Phone 10 is dead too, with as little as 0.6% global market share. If I would be an investor, I would fire this failed CEO and some of his top managers incl PR department and restore and rebrand some of their former good products.
- sverige 10y agoI hate it when they do interesting stuff. That's how Windows 8 happened. What they need to do is useful stuff.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoWindows 8 was extremely useful. It just forced poor compromises on desktop users. Its UI/UX was fantastic for every other end-user device at the time that could run it.
- 2bitencryption 10y agoThe concepts were fine but HORRIBLY executed. Okay, time to turn off my PC (with keyboard/mouse). Where is that? It's not in the start menu, and finding that alone took ten minutes... (30 minutes later) Oh. It's under settings. Because turning my device on and off is a setting, I guess? And the settings menu is in the charm bar. And you get to the charm bar by... putting your mouse in the top-right corner. And then sliding it down. It was just so many ridiculous new hoops to jump through, each one more frustrating than the last.
- toomanybeersies 10y agoTo be fair, how often in this day and age do you actually turn a computer off?
- rosstex 10y agoOnce a day. Keeps my room cool!
- paulmd 10y agoQuite often, given how fast Hybrid Boot is. Nowadays I rarely sleep it, I either want it to leave it churning on an encode or something, or just powered off to come back to a fresh environment. I really only sleep it if I'm absolutely in the middle of something that just cannot be effectively saved. I'm long-since done with Hibernate entirely and have switched it off to reclaim the space used by hiberfil.sys (powercfg /hibernate off).
- frik 10y agoIt's just a marketing strategy, to get more people on board of the Windows-as-a-service train, a train without exit doors. Good that I hear about that, I will buy a current gen CPU than and install a Win7 for legacy applications for the next ten years. And will await Android for Desktop or Google Fuchsia. The Windows days are over, that's happens when a CEO favors short turn strategies and burns his platform.
- MikusR 10y agoGot some proof of that?
- ams6110 10y agoI think it's less about wanting to drop support for old hardware than it is a panic-stricken move because Windows 10 is not compelling on its own.