Windows 7/8: finally Skylake processors supported

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that systems running the latest generation of Intel processors are no longer fully supported on Windows 7 and 8. The group finally relented.

Earlier this year, Microsoft made an announcement that had done a lot of attention. The publisher announced that to fully enjoy the features of the latest generation of Intel processors, the Skylake series, the PC mandatory fitting of Windows 10. As of July 2017, machines with these processors , running Windows 7 or 8, still receive critical updates but no longer benefit from extensive support. Finally, the Redmond company announced that it abandoned that idea.

Support for Skylake systems Windows 7 and 8 will be provided

Perhaps in order to always spend more users to Windows 10, Microsoft announced the end of extended support for Windows 7 and 8 from the month of July 2017 on PCs and tablets running a Skylake processor. This announcement caused a scandal earlier this year.

A few weeks later, the Redmond lengthened the duration of this support until July 2018. If users then want to have full support, they had to install Windows 10 on their machine. Not that their PCs would stop working but they would no longer receive all updates, only those criticisms and not compromising system stability.

Faced with the discontent of users, including companies with the migration to Windows 10 can not be planned in such a short time, Microsoft relented. The support will be provided on schedule before the policy change. To know that the end of extended support for Windows 7 is fixed to 14 January 2020 and for Windows 8 to 10 January 2023.

Windows 10 "mandatory" for the next generation of processors

However, the Redmond company maintains that to fully exploit the next generation of processors, whether the Intel Kabylake which should hit the market early next year or future AMD Bristol Ridge will require either Windows 10 installed on the machines.

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