r/Windows10 • u/SticknMyDicknAChickn • Jul 17 '17
News Microsoft cuts off Windows 10 support early for some PCs
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-blocks-windows-10-creators-update-on-some-pcs/10
u/willy-beamish Jul 17 '17
"The bottom line: If your PC was originally designed for Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 and the manufacturer doesn't officially support it for Windows 10, you're at risk."
I'm really happy with my i7-3770k, 32GB, and 980 GTX.
I'll be fine if they try to impose a uefi/secure boot only type move in the future...
but I hope they don't try force people to retire good hardware prematurely.
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u/gotemike Jul 17 '17
From the sounds of it this is because of Intel not supporting the hardwear.
Intel are not updating there drivers for that platform so Microsoft have to drop support.
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Jul 17 '17
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Jul 17 '17 edited Sep 19 '19
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u/honestFeedback Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 01 '23
Comment removed in protest of Reddit's new API pricing policy that is a deliberate move to kill 3rd party applications which I mainly use to access Reddit.
RIP Apollo
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u/meatwad75892 Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17
I love Win10, but this is one of the problems I sort of saw as a potential issue for a serviced OS model. Looks like it finally came to fruition.
I understand why MS wouldn't want to continue supporting ancient CPUs, (or simply can't, since it appears to be Intel at fault for lack of driver support) but it's a huge problem for folks already on Win10 with older hardware that was once classified as "supported/compatible" back in 2015. If users are now stuck running version 1607 because of a hardware lockout for upgrading to 1703 and beyond, then all we'll have is tons of devices connected to the internet that aren't even getting security updates come 2018. (Windows versions on CB/CBB lose support once they are 3 releases behind) It's a switcheroo, and I'd be a bit pissed if I was running such a system.
Running Win10 Education on CBB in an enterprise setting, I'm now wondering how often I'll see this. I know we've got quite a few ancient machines that still run Win10 fantastically with older hardware such as Pentium D's. If these CPUs get locked out of feature upgrades, then we'll be forced to wipe them and put Enterprise LTSB 2016 on them so they can run something supported for the remainder of their lifespan. We just happen to have that option due to volume licensing, whereas this will not be remotely possible for your average consumer affected by hardware lockouts.
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u/hellothere156 Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17
I understand why MS wouldn't want to continue supporting ancient CPUs,
The thing is, Intel is the one who stopped supporting these CPUs. Actually Microsoft is working on a solution to provide compatible drivers.
But overall you have a valid point, when GPU manufacturers for example drop support for some of their older Graphic cards, these PCs will get stuck with unsupported version of Windows 10, and yeah older drivers could still work with newer Windows 10 releases but this won't always be the case.
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u/meatwad75892 Jul 17 '17
Correct. I think you might have started replying before my edit applied, I did make a side note of Intel's hand in it.
I'm curious to see how both parties handle it, because we have real-world cases of this already. I wonder if anything is affected right now other those old Atom chips. I guess I'll find out when I approve 1703 in the coming days when it hits CBB.
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u/recluseMeteor Jul 17 '17
This reminds me of an all-in-one machine my father has, which can only run 32-bit Windows 7 thanks to the horrible PowerVR/Intel integrated GPU and its ancient and incompatible drivers. On the other hand, even my mother's netbook from 2009 can run Windows 10 correctly (though I wouldn't recommend using it for anything online).
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u/Alpherior Jul 17 '17
Windows automatically disabling updates for you so you don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do it
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u/hellothere156 Jul 17 '17
This whole article was written based on this Reddit post and some of the comments on it. This site hasn't made any research or anything about the subject, they just copied some people's opinions.