Microsoft, yes evil in present day, they never changed. "Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems": https://support.micro

Microsoft, yes evil in present day, they never changed. "Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-an-issue-in-which-you-receive-a-your-pc-uses-a-processor-tha https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-a... was on HN yesterday, but Microsoft plays with the HN ranking algorithms, it vanished rather quickly due to more comments than voting points ratio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883064 Ad headline news, the "protection schema" idea is directly inspired from the Mafia.