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Win 7 and 8.x users forced...

Mar 20, 2017 10:15AM PDT

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 Happy

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It's not a fault if they did this by design.
Mar 20, 2017 10:22AM PDT

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?

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the only thing that forced me to do...
Mar 20, 2017 11:05AM PDT

...was to leave windows for Linux. Well...actually that was more a choice on my part, LOL.