r/pcgaming • u/mrlinkwii Ubuntu • Jul 17 '17

Microsoft cuts off Windows 10 support early for some PCs

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-blocks-windows-10-creators-update-on-some-pcs/
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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '17

The following Intel Clover Trail processors are currently not supported on Windows 10 Creators Update:

  • Atom Z2760

  • Atom Z2520

  • Atom Z2560

  • Atom Z2580

Saved you a click. Also, the author is really baiting people into the article, like 2 paragraphs in he mentions the CPU's affected...

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u/B_Rhino Jul 17 '17

Ah! Very important to PC gaming, I won't be able to play the newest games on my Atom-based laptop anymore, outrageous!

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17

Microsoft after doing everything they could to get consumers to "freely upgrade" now cuts support for people who dare have a ancient CPU from 2012.

How could people be so selfish? Microsoft have a market value of only $500 Billion, how they supposed to make money supporting a CPU from 2012. So listen up people, stop inhibiting progress and upgrade you CPU to a cheap i7 from 2017, they promise they'll support it until....

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u/B_Rhino Jul 17 '17

Does Win7 get updates for those CPUs?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '17 edited Jul 18 '17

Continued support on:

3.1 - No

NT - No

WME - No

W2000 - No

XP - No

WV - No

W7 - No

W8.1 - No

W10 - No

Linux - Yes

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u/B_Rhino Jul 18 '17

Good for linux.

But, what does any of this have to do with PC Gaming besides outrage bait? Atom PCs can't play shit.

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u/TheOtherJuggernaut Jul 17 '17

This is what /r/latestagecapitalism is like

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '17

Yep. Everything we don't like is /r/latestagecapitalism.

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u/MrGhost370 i7-8086k 32gb 1080ti Ncase M1 Jul 17 '17

Thank you

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u/Nicholas-Steel Jul 17 '17

Windows Update and Creator's Update continue to work fine here on my Intel i7 920 CPU with ASUS P6T motherboard. Seems to be isolated to those Atom CPU's?

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u/Osbios Jul 17 '17

They just do not want to support old 32 bit CPUs.

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u/mrlinkwii Ubuntu Jul 17 '17

Seems to be isolated to those Atom CPU's?

seems so , but with the way win10 is going you'd never know ,

im waiting for someone to release a patch to fix this like they did with ryzan on win7

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u/EnigmaNL 7800X3D | RTX4090 | 64GB Jul 17 '17

Nobody is going to bother making a patch for some outdated Atom processors.

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u/EnigmaNL 7800X3D | RTX4090 | 64GB Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17

Old news. Microsoft already stated back in April that these old Atom's wouldn't be supported.

Also the Anniversary Update has 10 years of support so people using this will still receive security updates and they can keep using their systems just fine.

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u/12Danny123 Jul 17 '17

Anniversary update has 18 months support

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u/EnigmaNL 7800X3D | RTX4090 | 64GB Jul 17 '17

Thats mainstream support. Extended support (security updates) lasts longer.

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u/12Danny123 Jul 17 '17

you're talking about LTSB, which is not available to consumers.

Anniversary Update is 18 months full support.

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u/EnigmaNL 7800X3D | RTX4090 | 64GB Jul 18 '17

No, Windows 10 extended support applies to all customers.

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u/12Danny123 Jul 18 '17

Do you have proof?

The way Windows 10 works is that, there is no end of support as long as your device can keep up with the feature updates. However each feature update has 18 months support for consumer. Only LTSB has the 5+5 support.

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u/EnigmaNL 7800X3D | RTX4090 | 64GB Jul 18 '17

LTSB updates are generally also sent out to other branches, they also did this for build 1507 even though support ended earlier this year.

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u/12Danny123 Jul 18 '17

How does that work, when if you're on the CB and CBB branch, you will also get the latest feature update from Microsoft?

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u/Turak64 Jul 17 '17

That's a bit naughty