Reply to post: Re: Use the Disc?

Microsoft will rest its jackboot on Windows 7, 8.1's throat on new Intel CPUs in 2018 – not 2017

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: Use the Disc?

How many laptops and, indeed, desktops still ship with a DVD drive?

Also will Widows just bork half way through the installation if it discovered it can't switch from BIOS/UEFI loading from the disk to native hardware access because it lacks some driver support?

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