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Microsoft Quietly Cuts Off Windows 7 Support For Older Intel Computers (computerworld.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-life dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: If your PC doesn't run Streaming Single Instructions Multiple Data (SIMD) Extensions 2, you apparently won't be getting any more Win7 patches. At least, that's what I infer from some clandestine Knowledge Base documentation changes made in the past few days. Even though Microsoft says it's supporting Win7 until January 14, 2020, if you have an older machine -- including any Pentium III -- you've been blocked, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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  1. Microsoft should just brick all non win 10 pc's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Microsoft should just brick all non win 10 pc's and be done with it..
    Instead they like to torture the owners of previous operating systems, slowly breaking things and no longer patching.

    This results in the older machines being ideal nodes in a botnet.

  2. Re:Who cares? by drnb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even using your out of the ass numbers of 0.5% of computers (really using just Windows 7 sales (300 million), which is a smaller number), and you're talking 1.5 million computers. You don't think 1.5 million computers as part of a botnet would be a big thing? Or replacing 1.5 million computers early would be a big thing?

    Most of those have already been replaced and sent off to the metal recyclers. Congratulations, you managed to offer even dumber numbers than the GP.

    Of course, the real lesson here is to cut Windows products out of your environment as much as possible. Any company that believes it can just mandate substantial changes to your business so you can keep accepting patches to fix ITS bugs is a trainwreck.

    "Linux Set To Shed Nearly 500k Lines Of Code By Dropping Old CPUs"
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan....