Friday, September 2nd 2016
AMD "Zen" and Intel "Kaby Lake" will Only Support Windows 10 and *nix
If you're holding out on Windows 7 as your PC gaming platform, you may also want to hold out on your current hardware for a long while. Microsoft is making good on a warning it made earlier this year, that it would not provide support to users of upcoming processors on older Windows operating systems. At their launch, Intel's 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" processors and AMD "Summit Ridge" and "Bristol Ridge" will receive support from Microsoft only on the Windows 10 operating system. Older Windows versions will not receive drivers from Microsoft that support the new platforms. This is similar to Microsoft cutting off support for Windows XP from Intel's 3rd generation Core "Ivy Bridge" processors.
Without platform support, your Windows installation won't utilize many of the CPU features introduced with "Kaby Lake" and "Zen" and will likely run on a bare-minimum compatibility mode. This effectively cuts off PC enthusiasts from using older Windows versions on new hardware, such as the still-popular Windows 7. Non-Microsoft operating systems such as the latest *nix distributions such as ChromeOS, SteamOS, and OS X are still fully compatible with the upcoming chips.
Sources:
PC Gamer, Many Thanks to 95Viper for the tip.
Without platform support, your Windows installation won't utilize many of the CPU features introduced with "Kaby Lake" and "Zen" and will likely run on a bare-minimum compatibility mode. This effectively cuts off PC enthusiasts from using older Windows versions on new hardware, such as the still-popular Windows 7. Non-Microsoft operating systems such as the latest *nix distributions such as ChromeOS, SteamOS, and OS X are still fully compatible with the upcoming chips.
108 Comments on AMD "Zen" and Intel "Kaby Lake" will Only Support Windows 10 and *nix
It is news... because, there is updated/additional info in the reporting... guess you would need to read the source and other linked sources.
And, now, Intel is not going to be making drivers for the newer platforms on other than Windows 10. You would have to come up with your own drivers or have someone else code them.
Quote from source, PCGamer:
cpu producers make the drivers for their products so we'll see if these can be used/forced/changed for older OS's
and for M$ the usual big thx! :
Not really trying to bash or throw dirt on anyone but IMO this is a good move from MS as with this they could focus on Win10 development and optimization rather than focusing on keeping those older OS' alive.
I have been using windows 10 from the first week it was launched. Using 10 at home for gaming and 7 at work, so I have like every day comparison between the 10 and 7. ... and I still hate what they have done to the looks of windows over 7. so I completely understand the people who don't want to upgrade. And don't even start me with the forced updates and reboots; the fugly new settings menu shit with half the options missing that windows 7 has; non-working group policy rules for trying to prevent auto-reboots; in-built telemetry and keyloggers and start menu advertisements ffs. => Windows 10 was designed and developed by sadists and that's the fact.
1) looks like shit. I can't stand the flat design, it almost makes me physically sick, and everything blending together makes it significantly more difficult for me to tell what is what.
2) works like shit. When I actually installed it to have a first hand experience, it felt like taking 10 steps backwards. The whole fucking thing is a mess that's impossible for me to navigate through, because some genius thought it was an awesome idea to - among other things - screw up perfectly working Control panel and toss all the settings randomly into illogical places that make no sense, so what I was used to for say 15 years suddenly didn't apply anymore. It's EXACTLY like this:
P.S. I don't really care about the spying hystery - I can take care of it myself.
Those companies are buying new laptops every year, but they all have custom build images for Windows 7.
Isn't in your opinion a little bit retarded to stop the support for the new CPUs for using an older OS??
Maybe all those companies don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 for compatibility issues, costs, effort, etc.
For an average user Windows 7 is perfect. Why cripple his brand new laptop for not having the latest OS??
F**g idiots!
I was pro W10 until 1607 was launched. MS decided that you must have a lock screen (due to some trending bullshit, likely the most annoying explanation I've ever read from MS) and removed some settings that always had been there. If they had done that in 1507, fine, I wouldn't have complained that much. But now the situation is different, MS just showed me that they can remove features whenever they want, because of the windows as a service plan.
I can live with a lock screen, that's not the point. I can go searching for tweaks and workarounds, no problem − on a new install.
However, I'm not prepared to new versions once or twice a year that messes up my computer, even if it's only minor things.
Install any of the older versions and it stays like that, but not with W10. Yeah I know that the older versions aren't being developed anymore..
It's W8.1 for me now, after that it's either Linux or W10, we'll see.
I'm not prepared to holding my breath twice a year, not really knowing what they're going to break next.
From what I could see, noone was transitioning anything anywhere. There was no new control panel, just setting scattered all over the place.
I never used Windows 8.
And the whine here... ah... delicious.