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Skylake-E Windows 7/8 Support
- Thread starter Garretta
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You seem to have some misunderstandings of Skylake support for Windows 7/8.1. Start here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/11675/windows-7-windows-8-1-skylake-systems-supported
Since Skylake-E isn't released yet, it's unknown whether it will have vendor support. If this is a system build concern, don't expect any official level of support with enthusiast geared parts.
edit: to be more clear, MS didn't change its position on the scope of Skylake support, just length of the limited support. Months ago MS extended the time by 1 extra year, then a week or two ago extended it again to align with end of extended support for 7 and 8.1.
Skylake-E may work fine with 7/8.1, but so far there is no official statement of support, which would probably happen closer to release. The reason MS listed vendors in the link above is to reduce finger pointing if there are problems. With a self built system, you don't get the same level of assurance. Skylake-E may work, but there's no guarantee.
Since Skylake-E isn't released yet, it's unknown whether it will have vendor support. If this is a system build concern, don't expect any official level of support with enthusiast geared parts.
edit: to be more clear, MS didn't change its position on the scope of Skylake support, just length of the limited support. Months ago MS extended the time by 1 extra year, then a week or two ago extended it again to align with end of extended support for 7 and 8.1.
Skylake-E may work fine with 7/8.1, but so far there is no official statement of support, which would probably happen closer to release. The reason MS listed vendors in the link above is to reduce finger pointing if there are problems. With a self built system, you don't get the same level of assurance. Skylake-E may work, but there's no guarantee.
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drescherjm
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Isn't that Skylake-X now?
I'm talking about update support I'm not interested in their hopeless customer support.They said that Skylake was to receiveno security updatesonly the most "critical" security updates after 2017, then they changed it to 2018, then they changed it back to all security updates until 2020/2023. I was always referring to length, which is why I wrote ("extended support duration").
They say that "Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake silicon", and that "future silicon platforms" will need Windows 10. That sounds promising to me. Skylake-E/X/whatever is still "Skylake silicon". You wouldn't call it a different "silicon platform", would you?
I absolutely would call it a different platform.
High end desktop on a brand new chipset? Yeah thats a new platform.
CPU features may be the same, but the chipset will be far more advanced than Z170.