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Microsoft is dropping Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 support for Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Ryzen Processors. So you must run Windows 10 with these new GEN processors or you will not get any updates at all, you will just get an ERROR saying that this CPU is not supported.
So even though Windows 7 end of life isn't till 2020 and 8.1 in 2023... this is what Microsoft is doing.
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Man that sucks!, Microsoft are discouraging other PC Users (they need some humanity  )
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MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
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(03-26-2017, 07:22 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
Really? Wow!!!, Microsoft must hate the other companies
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(03-26-2017, 07:23 PM)RECdevicehelper Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:22 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
Really? Wow!!!, Microsoft must hate the other companies
It's just the whole Market Share thing. Everyone's trying to get one up on others, even Apple are guilty of it to some degree with their touchscreen tech which was actually ripped off from IBM.
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(03-26-2017, 07:25 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:23 PM)RECdevicehelper Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:22 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
Really? Wow!!!, Microsoft must hate the other companies
It's just the whole Market Share thing. Everyone's trying to get one up on others, even Apple are guilty of it to some degree with their touchscreen tech which was actually ripped off from IBM.
Right, thanks for the update!!!
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I don't like the tactics that Microsoft is using... Lots of businesses out there have proprietary software that only runs on Windows XP and Windows 7. Most of the time business class PC's are supported anywhere from 3 to 5 years depending on compliance, then they have to upgrade the systems. This will not be good as companies will be forced to upgrade or rewrite their software no matter what.
Though from a technicians point of view, this will weed out all the old computers out there that are hard to support because we cannot find parts to fix them.
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(03-26-2017, 07:25 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:23 PM)RECdevicehelper Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:22 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
Really? Wow!!!, Microsoft must hate the other companies
It's just the whole Market Share thing. Everyone's trying to get one up on others, even Apple are guilty of it to some degree with their touchscreen tech which was actually ripped off from IBM.
Apple is a whole other bag of bones when it comes to support. At least PC manufacturers will try to fix bugs or hardware problems. With Apple, they deny that hardware problems even exists in their products that little micro soldering technicians are finding solutions to all the time.
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(03-26-2017, 07:25 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:23 PM)RECdevicehelper Wrote: (03-26-2017, 07:22 PM)GuiltySpark Wrote: MS were trying to use forceful measures before when Win 10 was first released by trying to cut a deal with Dell and HP to make firmware that would only run Win 10 and nothing else, quite rightly Dell and HP told them 'go do one'.
Really? Wow!!!, Microsoft must hate the other companies
It's just the whole Market Share thing. Everyone's trying to get one up on others, even Apple are guilty of it to some degree with their touchscreen tech which was actually ripped off from IBM.
Yeah they even tried that with Windows 8
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