Reply to post: Re: The more they push

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

CFWhitman

Re: The more they push

"They did this with W9x, Windows NT, 2000 and XP, where is the news here?"

With all those systems that you just mentioned, they didn't do this until they ended support for the operating system altogether. This is entirely different than that. This is partially ending support for people who expected it to go on until 2020 when they bought the product.

It's true that this doesn't mean that Windows 7 won't work on the new hardware. However, Windows 7 on the new hardware will basically be in the same boat that Windows XP is as far as hardware compatibility is concerned rather than what people expected.

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