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AMD/ATI Drops Windows XP Support

Posted by timothy on from the sky-is-falling-just-very-slowly dept.

Billly Gates writes "The latest beta drivers for the Catalyst drivers control suite only list Vista as the lowest version they will support. We still have almost a year before Windows XP support finally ends. Will NVidia follow? So if you own a AMD system you will not receive audio, chipset, video, or any other drivers for your XP system and must upgrade or use an outdated legacy version. Looks like another death knell for this very long lasting platform."

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  1. Re:not entirely.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no, my old laptop will no longer be able to play the latest games! Oh wait, it never could handle anything past Sim City 3000 anyway...

  2. Re:except when there's a security bug by Rockoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is XP that we are talking about, where people nearly universally run it as administrator.

    Using a display driver exploit on XP is like using C4 explosive to open a screen door.

    --
    "His name was James Damore."