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Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

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Re: The more they push

Now they tell me, screw you, you want to upgrade to the current hardware, you are changing to 10 and that is all there is to that.

No, they are saying that it may not work or may not take full advantage of new hardware - exactly the same as other legacy versions of Windows.

Windows 7 will probably boot on a Kabylake, but it won't take advantage of any new CPU features and MS won't guarantee its stability. If you look at XP and W9x, that is pretty much the same situation. Some processor features in Core i processors aren't available in XP and some cause compatibility problems and you have to disable some CPU features in the BIOS.

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