Microsoft Limits Support For Upcoming Processors To Windows 10

[sylentz199]

Of course they want people to upgrade. They waste a fortune patching operating systems they don't sell.

They wouldn't have to waste a fortune on patching if their OS wasn't 20GB in size and full of security holes.

OS is more like 7GB...lookup Win10 Compact OS. Have Win10 running on my 32gig Venue Pro with 24GB free.
and stfu about security holes. Code written by humans will always have holes. They aren't stupid UAF and buffer overflows like in C-based Linux. Oh and hitting backspace 26 times in Grub...come on.

 

[die4die]

it's perfectly fine with me since I fail to see why anyone would want to use new hardware with old software or outdated hardware with new software.
I usually build a new gaming computer every 5-6 years n it costs $1000-1500 so $100 for the latest windows OS is hardly a problem especially when Microsoft gives windows 7, 8, 8.1 free upgrade to windows 10.

 

[ERIC J]

I am not impressed with either MS's WIN 10 or its "you must use this OS or else" policy!sg
BAD move on their part, as i am really considering going LINUX!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

this is great news for the tinfoil hat business

 

[Christopher1]

MS is just pushing more people to Linux. I upgraded to Win 10 on both my home desktop and my work laptop. I am thoroughly unimpressed. Does it work? Yes it does. Is it more stable then Win 7, which was my previous platform? No it is not. Do I like feeling that I am paying to be forced into a walled garden? No I do not. I will build a new gaming box this year if all goes well. Will have Win 10 with ever possible call home setting turned off. For serious work, I rely on Linux these days. Not dealing with MS strong arm tactics when I don't have to. When the games I play work as well on Linux as they do on Windows, I'll be outta there.

Sorry but I strongly disagree with everything that you said.
It is time to realize that Windows 10 sends nothing that Windows 7 did not also send, as long as you have Cortana turned off which I do with my PC.
It is also much more stable than Windows 7 and 8/8.1, runs faster on older processors than those two operating systems, etc.
Basically all of your post seems like anti-Microsoft naysayer nonsense.

 

[surphninja]

...enables up to 30x better graphics and 3x the battery life...

So we're talking about laptops? How many end users are upgrading their laptop processor? This sounds like it's more directed to pc vendors, so that they won't be able to offer the older Os's on their pc's.

Most people worried about graphics are going to have the graphics card pulling that weight anyway.

They're really worried about not getting to the promised number of Win10 devices in time. Still, not worried enough to give users full control over data to alleviate privacy concerns.

 

[JonnyDough]

I stopped buying games on Steam that weren't Linux (Steam OS) compatible. Is Steam OS perfect? No, but as it progresses and Microsoft continues to blunder, GAMERS can push developers in the direction of Linux and away from M$ and all their bull. CONSUMERS decide the market, not Microsoft.

 

[Lucious Maximus]

You know, a little while back, bigger companies offered their services as enablers, happy for you to use their product.
Today it would seem, the approach now is to say, "you will use our latest product or die.".

 

[kep55]

MS is just pushing more people to Linux. I upgraded to Win 10 on both my home desktop and my work laptop. I am thoroughly unimpressed. Does it work? Yes it does. Is it more stable then Win 7, which was my previous platform? No it is not. Do I like feeling that I am paying to be forced into a walled garden? No I do not. I will build a new gaming box this year if all goes well. Will have Win 10 with ever possible call home setting turned off. For serious work, I rely on Linux these days. Not dealing with MS strong arm tactics when I don't have to. When the games I play work as well on Linux as they do on Windows, I'll be outta there.

Sorry but I strongly disagree with everything that you said.
It is time to realize that Windows 10 sends nothing that Windows 7 did not also send, as long as you have Cortana turned off which I do with my PC.
It is also much more stable than Windows 7 and 8/8.1, runs faster on older processors than those two operating systems, etc.
Basically all of your post seems like anti-Microsoft naysayer nonsense.

I had a direct comparison of Win 10 to Win 7 on my 8 year old Toshiba. Win10 borked the hard drive, would not maintain scroll bars, gave its own BSD repeatedly, and was a bitch to find things. And no, it was not faster than Win 7. I dumped 10 and went back to 7. My Tosh has an AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Accelerated Processor with AMD Radeon™ HD 6520G Graphics 2.3 GHz with AMD Turbo Core Technology, 4MB Cache and 8MB RAM.

 

[Jrobot9]

That's ironic (this article). I was just explaining to my wife my prediction of MS's policy course regards Win10 the other night: MS will increase speed on it's drops of other versions support and herd consumers into the Win10 box. And, here it is in writing. Look folks, fellow tech-heads and trusting good-people alike, we all need to think for ourselves more. Alot more. MS and other 'invisible giants' have their subtle(or not) hands in our pcs, which are now more personal to us than ever before. That's your life, your info, maybe your shoe size and family pictures in there. Your business, your life. Not theirs. Don't take it for granted. Think I'll get back into coding again; need a better OS.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

instead of everyone condoning microsoft for this, how about condoning the other available choices for OS for not offering proper hardware support or functionality or other software developers for not bothering to produce a decent OS in the passed 15 years?

 

[BillV523]

Isn't Cortana just Bill Gates dressed in drag?

 

[Purdypog]

Well, i may be in the minority but my upgrade from windows 8.1 to windows 10 has put me in the can't be happier mode. My system runs so much better it isn't even funny.

 

[ormaaj]

x86 tends to be very backwards-compatible. It rarely if ever requires modification of the OS for basic support of newer chips. To take advantage of new x86 features requires rebuilding large parts of the core OS and drivers, and pushing those out through updates. Microsoft has never done that in the past so it isn't clear what could be changing now.

New software and non-microsoft libraries built for newer chips should also be unaffected. Also any new versions of the .NET runtime and other JITed code (e.g. Clang runtime optimization) that runs on older OSes should be able to handle generating correct code for the detected features. The particular instructions used by user-space code don't typically require cooperation of the OS.

 

[jbrandt5]

2001 space oddesy arrives 15 years late.
Dave,what are you doing?
I am shutting you down, HAL.

I have a system I spent many thousands on, for one purpose.
Flight Simulator. When I installed the update, POOF it is gone.
Despite the warm and friendly screen that promises....
Your files are just where you left them.

Goodbye, HAL, forever. I began with DOS 5.0 every single upgrade longing to see improvements which never came. I had a $300 set of rudder pedals from Germany with a midi interface (anybody remember Gameport?) that I had to throw in the dumpster as Microsoft wrote it out. Never, never, again. Adios!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I have a system I spent many thousands on, for one purpose.
Flight Simulator. When I installed the update, POOF it is gone.
Despite the warm and friendly screen that promises....
Your files are just where you left them.

obviously you've done or are doing something wrong.
if you paid for the game/flight sim then you still have the installation media or the activation serial for digital version. so, it can't POOF away in that manner. if you lost either, it is not Windows' fault.
and anyway when you do a straight upgrade from 7 or 8/8.1 to 10 your previous programs and User folders are still intact. so you've either just lost the shortcut to the program and it is still there or you chose to format your disk during install. Windows does not just decide to uninstall certain programs and erase their folders while itself is installing.
and if you overwrite any later versions of Windows with newer versions there will still be Windows.old folder which would have your User files(game saves, program settings, etc) inside of it. again, unless you chose to format the disk during install.
i've done multiple upgrades to 10 and made sure everything was intact every time. the only "shortcuts" that ever were lost from 8.1 to 10 were my items pinned to the Metro screen. but, the actual programs were always still there where they had been installed.

 

[sh4dow83]

When the games I play work as well on Linux as they do on Windows, I'll be outta there.

Damn it, you're right!
I thought to myself that I'll just switch to Linux once companies stop driver support for Windows 7 but I do like to play a game here and there.
Just moved to PC gaming from consoles this generation too and wasn't really planning on going back to that overpriced crap.
But I guess I have no other choice short of getting two PCs - one with Windows 10 for gaming and one with Linux for all other stuff.