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New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the confirmation that they will have a Windows 10 future. Microsoft has been warning people for ages that Kaby Lake will not run on anything older than Windows 10, and it looks like AMD's upcoming Zen chip will be going the same way. Microsoft said, "As new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support. This enables us to focus on deep integration between Windows and the silicon, while maintaining maximum reliability and compatibility with previous generations of platform and silicon." "We are committed to working with Microsoft and our ecosystem partners to help ensure a smooth transition given these changes to Microsoft's Windows support policy," an Intel spokesperson said. "No, Intel will not be updating Win 7/8 drivers for 7th Gen Intel Core [Kaby Lake] per Microsoft's support policy change." An AMD representative was equally neutral. "AMD's processor roadmap is fully aligned with Microsoft's software strategy," AMD chief technical officer Mark Papermaster said, via a company spokeswoman. Slashdot reader MojoKid via HotHardware has some more details on Intel's Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Processors for those yearning to learn more.
"Windows 10 will be the only Microsoft OS to support new Intel and AMD chips"
Little to see here, moving on.
I expect UEFI lock down will soon prevent Linux from being installed.
Linux is already supported by UEFI. The major Linux distros have paid the one-time US$99 fee to be able to get their code on the UEFI supported list.
So it's collusion when an auto manufacturer stops selling older model cars? It's collusion when you can't buy the 2010 version of tax software?
Microsoft isn't interested in selling you Windows 7, and you can't compel them to. Of course, the offered you (and really, they still do) the free upgrade path to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.x. Consumers aren't being injured, except by their own paranoia.
They don't want older versions installed on new hardware, and they are using their status as a 900lb gorilla to enforce it. As long as they don't prevent Linux, BSD, or other alternative operating systems from running on intel and AMD chips/chipsets, there is no collusion and no injury to consumers. I'm sure it rubs you the wrong way, but then again, if you still won't run Windows 10, it's probably likely anything Microsoft does will rub you the wrong way.
-- Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
May I suggest an Honest tag line? Liberalism: Ideas so good they require an end to the world's largest prison state that has supported fascism for so many years.
Please read 1984. It is a warning against English Socialism. The party in the story is called IngSoc which is New Speak for English Socialism incase you could not figure that out. Political Correctness is the New Speak of today.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Or my favorite, the DEC Alpha...
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Erm... Linux runs just fine on numerous ARM designs, and the hardware can happily support modern applications as well. Have you used an Android phone lately, as perhaps the most recognisable example of this actually being done?
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
This is actually good for news linux developers, just not in the way most people think. A very large part of this push is to try to make yet another step away from legacy x86 code. Newer windows binaries is much more easier to port to other systems and in fact Microsoft is developing the tools to do quite a bit of this for you. All of this easy to port code will be easy to port to linux and any other OS you want. Microsoft is trying to become the place to go for cloud hosted computing and while they know they are way behind apple and google right now they can stay relevant by making their tools and back end services work with as many different platforms as possible. It will be interesting to see what the market looks like 5 or 10 years from now. Who ever thought Microsoft would have even done a 10th of what they have done in the past year or two for open source based on what they were like 10 years ago? The landscape has changed and Google is becoming more and more restrictive with what they do and how they handle your data every year. Apple is the same, but they've always been like that to a degree.
AFAIK this is only about Microsoft choosing to support chip features in Win 10 only, not that the chip manufacturers are barring other OSes. If that assumption is right then I don't understand why such a misleading submission was posted without correction on Slashdot.
It comes off as *only* Windows 10. That's borderline Huffpo click bait as of course x86 Linux users don't have to lose a moment's sleep over this distressing headline. :-)