Microsoft for over a year has written, said that the 7th gen Intel chips will only be supported by Microsoft's latest OS.
Why is this news?
In the past it seems very hard to get any Win7 updates for whatever reason. Now there is a reason and it all MS fault. Provided you have a later generation of Intel cpus, getting Win7 and 8.x updates will be naught.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/microsoft-forcing-windows-7-8-124409597.html
Let's be clear as the article states it be a forced move should you decide to later upgrade to Win10 whether you want to or not. I understand MS reasoning(yeah) but forcing users is just too much.
tada -----Willy ![]()

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