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It 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,

It 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 ago
Gotta love the fact that "most" (not all) news outlets want to blow up a topic.
gfody 10y ago
It'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 ago
  Journalism is dead.
- CyberDildonics 10y ago
  They 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 ago
Windows 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.
- hiram112 10y ago
  Yep. I realized today that in my office of about 30 employees, there are about 2 windows machines, 2 devs running Linux, and the rest running MacBooks. All of our servers are CentOS on AWS. Email is Gmail enterprise. We use a dozen different languages and frameworks, but no dot Net, no Visual Studio to be seen. And most of us now collaborate with Google docs or just markdown / Confluence / Slack. The only ones using MS office are a few of the managers over the age of 50...
  - njharman 10y ago
    Sure, me too except zero windows. but Microsoft has realized going after 30person offices is not lucrative compared to 30,000person companies and government depts.
  - ams6110 10y ago
    I don't think Gmail and Google Docs are a great alternative when the GP was discussing privacy.
- emp_zealoth 10y ago
  I hope you do realise that most of that anti-privacy bullshit was backported to win7 too?
  - Zpalmtree 10y ago
    Yes, but fortunately it's rather easy to avoid the backports, wheras I believe it's impossible to completely disable it in Windows 10
- MikusR 10y ago
  You can block what you want using the built in firewall http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/ http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-...
  - andrepd 10y ago

keithbohler 10y ago

Gotta love the fact that "most" (not all) news outlets want to blow up a topic.

gfody 10y ago

It'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 ago
Journalism is dead.
CyberDildonics 10y ago
They 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 ago

Windows 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.

hiram112 10y ago
Yep. I realized today that in my office of about 30 employees, there are about 2 windows machines, 2 devs running Linux, and the rest running MacBooks. All of our servers are CentOS on AWS. Email is Gmail enterprise. We use a dozen different languages and frameworks, but no dot Net, no Visual Studio to be seen. And most of us now collaborate with Google docs or just markdown / Confluence / Slack. The only ones using MS office are a few of the managers over the age of 50...
- njharman 10y ago
  Sure, me too except zero windows. but Microsoft has realized going after 30person offices is not lucrative compared to 30,000person companies and government depts.
- ams6110 10y ago
  I don't think Gmail and Google Docs are a great alternative when the GP was discussing privacy.
emp_zealoth 10y ago
I hope you do realise that most of that anti-privacy bullshit was backported to win7 too?
- Zpalmtree 10y ago
  Yes, but fortunately it's rather easy to avoid the backports, wheras I believe it's impossible to completely disable it in Windows 10
MikusR 10y ago
You can block what you want using the built in firewall http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/ http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-...
- andrepd 10y ago