Microsoft Extends Skylake Support On Windows 7 and 8.1

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It looks like Microsoft is listening to customer feedback and has decided to extend Skylake support on Windows 7 and 8.1 for another year.

A key part of this update was our commitment to continuing to lead with a customer-first approach. Since then we’ve received feedback from customers at various stages of planning and deployment of Windows 10. Led by their feedback, today we are sharing a few updates to our Skylake support policy*:

  • To help provide greater flexibility for customers who have longer deployment timeframes to Windows 10, the support period for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices on Skylake systems will be extended by one year: from July 17, 2017 to July 17, 2018.
  • Also, after July 2018, all critical Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 security updates will be addressed for Skylake systems until extended support ends for Windows 7, January 14, 2020 and Windows 8.1 on January 10, 2023.
 
I would have to guzzle Ambien-Tequila nightcaps so I could sleep at night if I wrote spin like this. :D

A key part of this update was our commitment to continuing to lead with a customer-first approach. ​
 
I know an option where you aren't at the whim of a company. Use Linux. It's actually easier than windows.

How much time do you spend finding miscellaneous drivers in windows? Well, in Linux you don't have to. That's just one area where it's easier than windows.

Oh, and you don't have to worry about lack of support for newer hardware.
 
I bought and installed Windows 7 on my new skylake computer before their announcement, so I'm expecting support for the full lifecycle duration as with the rest of the other CPUs. Or is this CPU racism? ;)
 
BloodyIron said:
I know an option where you aren't at the whim of a company. Use Linux. It's actually easier than windows.

How much time do you spend finding miscellaneous drivers in windows? Well, in Linux you don't have to. That's just one area where it's easier than windows.

Oh, and you don't have to worry about lack of support for newer hardware.
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Would love to, once it supports as many games as Windows does.
 
In other words, the enterprise market handed their asses to them. Man I just love how these guys can spin shit LOL
 
TechLarry said:
In other words, the enterprise market handed their asses to them. Man I just love how these guys can spin shit LOL
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Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Enterprise is also who handed MS their asses with 8 and forced them to tuck tail and bring back the start menu. Would have never happened otherwise. They sure as hell don't care about consumers anymore.
 
Love it. The fanboys and the local shills that should not be named, said that it was a pure technical limitation and not one more lie to push W10 NSA edition down everyone's throat.

I think the conversation went like this:

NSA: Yo, Billy boi gates, you need to include this super duper keylogger into w10 and make sure that everyone moves to it ASAP.
M$: hmm, the keylogger is ok, but the adoption rate would be a bit slower.
NSA: fuck it, here is a blank check to cover cost and give it away for free.
M$: That works and lets make is as hard as possible to get everyone on it.
NSA: Yeah, also drop support for newer cpus, so they have even less excuses.
M$: done!

A couple of months after:

M$: sorry, Mr. NSA, the plebs are revolting and jumping to Linux because of the heavy handed approach.
NSA: ok, give the plebs a little breathing room and allow them to use w7 and w8 with skylake and skylake only!
M$: yes master.

And that brings us to today news. :)
 
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Well even most evil corporations sometime need rethinking of their stupid policy. It would be suicidal to M$ if they abandoned 7 or 8 on Skylake. Considering that both systems rack up about 70% of the MS-OS market - and if you not count gaming as $team surveys are meaningless - even more because businesses won't switch to 10 at all/any time soon.
 
what? since when do processors support operating systems/vice versa? hell you can install windows 98 on an i7 if you really wanted to
 
The whole thing was basically sensationalism anyway. Not "supporting Skylake" basically meant they wouldn't have issued Intel's microcode updates, so you would have either had to flash your BIOS or do without them. You can install Windows on any machine that's x86 compatible. Most people wouldn't have even noticed the difference if they stopped "supporting" Skylake. It really doesn't do a whole lot that's new. You can run DOS on a modern computer if you really don't mind being limited to 640k of RAM and you have a way to load software without a floppy drive. Intel's processors are still capable of 16-bit modes, etc.

I'm pretty sure some news outlet ran with that headline to make people paranoid. I mean, do they honestly think Microsoft is compiling optimized binaries for every architecture rather than just generic x64 binaries that work on pretty much any system?
 
BloodyIron said:
How much time do you spend finding miscellaneous drivers in windows? Well, in Linux you don't have to. That's just one area where it's easier than windows.

Oh, and you don't have to worry about lack of support for newer hardware.
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Here is a little secret: you don't have to search for drivers in Windows 10 either.
 
wyqtor said:
Here is a little secret: you don't have to search for drivers in Windows 10 either.
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I've never seen a windows version where the included drivers were acceptable. Sometimes they are outright broken. Did that suddenly change with W10? Well even if it did, after MS's track record, I'd still find my drivers manually. As for Linux, that's an even bigger 180, since last I checked it was a total nightmare to install drivers. At least it was really rewarding when you finally got it working.

Anyway I guess what I mean is having to search for drivers is not an important metric in OS choice for me. I'd rather concern myself on how it performs in day to day usage. I don't care how much a pain it is to install if I can forget about it after that. And Linux is like that. A pain to install and configure, but works unattended after that. Whereas windows can break any time. Especially since MS decided to push beta updates without proper QA out to the unsuspecting masses.

Haven't had a week pass by recently at my office without having some of the computers act up after / during updates.
 
One thing is certain, the hate just feeds off each other around here. :D Last time I checked, all versions of Windows worked fine with Skylake but hey, why should facts get in the way of entertainment. :) The usual suspects are here too and kept the thread going, thanks. :D
 
BloodyIron said:
I know an option where you aren't at the whim of a company. Use Linux. It's actually easier than windows.

How much time do you spend finding miscellaneous drivers in windows? Well, in Linux you don't have to. That's just one area where it's easier than windows.

Oh, and you don't have to worry about lack of support for newer hardware.
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Linux evangelists. Going out of the way to show the rest of the world how little they know about computers one post at a time.
 
Osirus said:
Linux evangelists. Going out of the way to show the rest of the world how little they know about computers one post at a time.
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Not really sure where Linux folks get the notion about Linux driver superiority over Windows. That may be the case for some older hardware that doesn't get support in later versions of Windows. But for new hardware that's not really the case. Try installing Linux on a new 2 in 1.
 
Osirus said:
Linux evangelists. Going out of the way to show the rest of the world how little they know about computers one post at a time.
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Every once in a great while, something comes along the is eminently quotable, this is one of those things. :D
 
wyqtor said:
Here is a little secret: you don't have to search for drivers in Windows 10 either.
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Funny, i just did 5 new NUC's and none of them had drivers for the NIC under W10, but anyways....
 
Osirus said:
Linux evangelists. Going out of the way to show the rest of the world how little they know about computers one post at a time.
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M$ fanbois and $hills, going out of their way to blindly defend their deity/employer when anyone dares to post information of another platform...
 
grtitan said:
M$ fanbois and $hills, going out of their way to blindly defend their deity/employer when anyone dares to post information of another platform...
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Sorry, not really quotable, try again. :D ;) Also, Skylake was never a Windows 10 only OS cpu, good luck with that line of reasoning.
 
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Once the majority of games are on Linux as well, RIP never using windows again. Developers need to start using OpenGL again.
 
Mystique said:
Once the majority of games are on Linux as well, RIP never using windows again. Developers need to start using OpenGL again.
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Correct if I am wrong but, it is my understanding that the majority of games on Linux are not even natively supported titles. In fact, last time I tried Steam for Linux 6 months ago, only 5 or so out of the 61 games I had even ran in Linux. :eek::rolleyes: I think it was fun to try out and play around since I have been doing that on and over for over 20 years. However, Windows is and will probably always be the predominate platform for games on the PC.
 
grtitan said:
Love it. The fanboys and the local shills that should not be named, said that it was a pure technical limitation and not one more lie to push W10 NSA edition down everyone's throat.

I think the conversation went like this:

NSA: Yo, Billy boi gates, you need to include this super duper keylogger into w10 and make sure that everyone moves to it ASAP.
M$: hmm, the keylogger is ok, but the adoption rate would be a bit slower.
NSA: fuck it, here is a blank check to cover cost and give it away for free.
M$: That works and lets make is as hard as possible to get everyone on it.
NSA: Yeah, also drop support for newer cpus, so they have even less excuses.
M$: done!

A couple of months after:

M$: sorry, Mr. NSA, the plebs are revolting and jumping to Linux because of the heavy handed approach.
NSA: ok, give the plebs a little breathing room and allow them to use w7 and w8 with skylake and skylake only!
M$: yes master.

And that brings us to today news. :)
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Yeah, because so many people are jumping ship and going to Linux. Keep smoking whatever it is you are smoking.
 
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