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This seems counterintuitive, even if Windows 7/8 are on life-support now. Surely letting people just install the updates 'as is' is better than restricting them
by owenwil 10y ago
This seems counterintuitive, even if Windows 7/8 are on life-support now. Surely letting people just install the updates 'as is' is better than restricting them.
That said – this is not so different from Apple, which puts computers into "end of life" every few years, so you can't get any updates.
- 0x0 10y agoIsn't it quite the opposite though? Here, old computers get updates but new computers/cpus are killed before they get to start?
- sddfd 10y agoThey are trying to kill windows 7/8.1 to get as much people to 10 as possible.
- einr 10y agoProbably not. If you're affected by this, most likely you know what you're doing and are by conscious choice running Windows 7 on a new computer -- and if you're willing to jump through all the hoops that entails just to avoid Windows 10, you're probably also going to accept being without security patches if the alternative is forced upgrade to Windows 10. So they're opening the door for all kinds of nasty security problems. Bad move, I gotta say.
- ianai 10y agoNo, there you're pointing out the actual difference between Apple and Microsoft. I don't even remember the last time I directly paid for a Mac OS (10.6?). Nowadays it all comes down through the Mac App Store, a usb key, or a rescue partition. Periodically Apple discontinues which hardware sets it supports. You can still boot that same hardware on whatever the latest, most patched OS that will run on it - from Apple. They sell hardware. Intel does the exact same thing with their processors. Microsoft does the same with its products - which are software based. Per Microsoft, Windows XP is EOL. It doesn't matter what hardware you want to run it on - Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Are they attempting to push people to newer versions of Windows? Absolutely. They're essentially defining their product. This seems different on the outside but I'm not sure it is. I think they've said something about Skylake/above functions differently enough to require significant changes to Windows 7.