Wait a minute. This doesn't make any sense. If Intel puts out a new CPU and it won't run Windows 7, that's Intel's fault not Microsoft. All CPUs use the same basic x86 instructions. The only limiting factor is drivers for the motherboard chipset. If you can get drivers, you can run any version of Windows on any CPU. The only way this scam will work is if Microsoft and Intel/AMD are in it together, and Intel/AMD agree to only produce CPUs that require some feature only found in Windows 10. I don't understand why Intel/AMD would agree to do that -- and that sort of collusion is almost certainly illegal.
@El_Heffe: Wintel is a long lasting love story. And yes, if M$ tells Intel to mess up their chipsets in order to block older Windows versions from running apart from Windows 10, Intel does it (bill has quite a few billions and getting one is good for Intel). P.S. M$ has done that before, when Intel dropped support for Windows XP in order for the users to go with Vista. @pisthai: aka undiscovered Steve Ballmer. Wonderful discourse. I almost cried. Using your way of reasoning, let's make the wheels square and all race Daytona 500 as daily job (coding for M$ is the night job)
PC sales dropped in 2015. People have said for years the PC is dead. This may be the thing that really starts to put the nail in the coffin.
Legal Notice To Me From Microsoft - I Have 180 Days To ... Move the stick in my avatar to another part of my anatomy. OUCH.
If you think you invented the preventive war, I'm afraid that #1 No, someone else did it before #2 It wasn't a so clever idea.
Since the major hardware manufacturers like Intel, Dell, HP and others along with Microsoft agreed, and I would say, consipred to come up with the SLIC method of licensing Windows, I thought they would just eliminate the SLIC table in the BIOS. Without a valid SLIC table you wouldn't be able to validate any version of Win-7. Maybe that's what they ultimately intend to do? Or would an updated Daz Loader work without a SLIC table?
I would suggest that you all start buying pre-skylake motherboards and stocking up. To me, this seems like a speculator tactic to drive the price of old (pre non-Win 10 compatibility) motherboards up. That's of course, based on whether or not there's actually a MS / Intel collaboration to make mobos that will not run previous versions of Windows. Make money with FUD.
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Okay, ask yourself, what is the reason for ending support of Windows 7 and making new CPU's only support Windows 10?. Money is the only reason I can think of. Now, how is Windows 7 different from Windows 10 when it comes to making money for Microsoft? If they end support, what does it matter if people continue to use Windows 7 instead of Windows 10? Once again, what difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 that makes money for Microsoft? The Microsoft Store. Windows 7 doesn't have it. Windows 10 does. Every copy of Windows that has the Microsoft Store potentially makes money for Microsoft. Windows 7, without the Microsoft Store, doesn't. If Microsoft can force all of those Windows 7 users into Windows 10, many will buy stuff from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. The Microsoft Store icon is even pinned to the Taskbar and already in the Start Menu so users can easily find it and use it when Windows 10 starts for the first time after an install. Microsoft may have offered a piece of the store sales action to Intel, Dell, HP, etc. if they push Windows 10. So, follow the money, right to the Microsoft Store. That must be the answer as to why Microsoft is pushing, even forcing, and giving away Windows 10 to users that don't want it. Up-selling from the Microsoft Store. The Apple Store and Google Store make a lot of money for those companies. Microsoft wants to do the same, but its Windows phone is a flop and loses Microsoft money on each one sold. All they have left to offer their Microsoft Store through is Windows 10. That's got to be the reason for all the high pressure tactics to upgrade.
Surely their Store is the reason why Windows 10 is a free upgrade, even for pirated copies of Windows 7. If so, why did Microsoft add Telemetry to Windows 7? What does that matter? Do people actually buy from Windows Store? I didn't and won't. I wonder why Microsoft missed the opportunity to make DirectX 12 a Windows Store exclusive API. Lol. Microsoft's aggresive behaviour led me to believe they will make Windows a completely closed OS in a few years with no support for Win32/64 apps. Only Windows Store apps being installed and run.
The actual statement pertains to Enterprise support only. I can't wait for all the people using pirated LTSB to start screaming that it won't boot anymore.
In my country we say "one hand washes the other". The two hands are clearly MS and Intel who lived mainly because the mutual help. That help in the past was "natural", took place possibly w/o the need of any explicit agreement. Now the competition from ARM cpus, from Android, IOS, Macos and also Linux, and (last but not least) the HW evolution that was faster than the SW obesity, undermined that "natural" path, so MS and Intel are going to enforce their business, trying to restart the old school chain of updated SW needs new HW, new HW allows for bigger, more bloated, slower SW, and so on. Pretty understandable if we put our self in the Intel/MS clothes.
What a way to phase out old processors! If only the new ones are going to come cheap. My understanding is that if Intel is going to cooperate with Microsoft in supporting Windows 10 in new processors only there has to be room for compromise on prices. I think that has to come at the expense of cutting down on the prices of high-end computers.