What the hell Microsoft...

[nicholasfd]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/07/27/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-free-problems-specs/#4ada461c4031

 

So, Microsoft is trying as hard as they can to upgrade people to windows 10. We get it. But this... This takes things to another whole level...

 

In short, Microsoft will be:

• making brand new kaby lake and ryzen not compatible with anything other than windows 10
• requiring relatively modern hardware for feature updates
• telling you that you have an incompatible system and not saying what needs to be upgraded

 

This seems like a huge middle finger from Microsoft because they forced Windows 10 on thousands of people running windows 7 or 8.1, and for them,  it might have been running really good on relatively old hardware. Now, they are taking all of those systems that were running fine on older hardware and making them incompatible.

[sazrocks]

Hasn't this been happening for weeks now?

[MorganO]

3 minutes ago, nicholasfd said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/07/27/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-free-problems-specs/#4ada461c4031

 

So, Microsoft is trying as hard as they can to upgrade people to windows 10. We get it. But this... This takes things to another whole level...

 

In short, Microsoft will be:

• making brand new kaby lake and ryzen not compatible with anything other than windows 10
• requiring relatively modern hardware for feature updates
• telling you that you have an incompatible system and not saying what needs to be upgraded

 

This seems like a huge middle finger from Microsoft because they forced Windows 10 on thousands of people running windows 7 or 8.1, and for them,  it might have been running really good on relatively old hardware. Now, they are taking all of those systems that were running fine on older hardware and making them incompatible.

this is  old news

[DXMember]

is this new for you?

also there's a difference between incompatible and unsupported

[Kherm]

2 minutes ago, nicholasfd said:

• making brand new kaby lake and ryzen not compatible with anything other than windows 10

Not New

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• requiring relatively modern hardware for feature updates

False. Only Clovertrail, which intel is refusing to support, is being left behind. It's now on the hardware vendor to supply drivers to Microsoft. If Intel says a chipset is EOL and refuses to write drivers, support has ended on Windows 10.

 

[SCHISCHKA]

Why would you expect microsoft to support new hardware on old software? This is not their business model.

Here is a short lesson in capitalism: Microsoft takes money from shareholders, employs engineers, sells the fruit of their labour, and returns profits back to shareholders. They dont work for you they work for their shareholders and they do not make money recompiling old software. If you dont like Windows 10 there are competing products you can support like playstation or steamOS.

[DXMember]

I mean there's people that just don't know any better and then there's people that are 3 months late to the party and are completely missing the point spreading misinformation

[Donut417]

3 hours ago, nicholasfd said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/07/27/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-free-problems-specs/#4ada461c4031

 

So, Microsoft is trying as hard as they can to upgrade people to windows 10. We get it. But this... This takes things to another whole level...

 

In short, Microsoft will be:

• making brand new kaby lake and ryzen not compatible with anything other than windows 10
• requiring relatively modern hardware for feature updates
• telling you that you have an incompatible system and not saying what needs to be upgraded

 

This seems like a huge middle finger from Microsoft because they forced Windows 10 on thousands of people running windows 7 or 8.1, and for them,  it might have been running really good on relatively old hardware. Now, they are taking all of those systems that were running fine on older hardware and making them incompatible.

If you dont like it use Linux  

[Dat Guy]

Don't.

[GoodBytes]

6 hours ago, nicholasfd said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/07/27/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-free-problems-specs/#4ada461c4031

 

So, Microsoft is trying as hard as they can to upgrade people to windows 10. We get it. But this... This takes things to another whole level...

 

In short, Microsoft will be:

• making brand new kaby lake and ryzen not compatible with anything other than windows 10
• requiring relatively modern hardware for feature updates
• telling you that you have an incompatible system and not saying what needs to be upgraded

 

This seems like a huge middle finger from Microsoft because they forced Windows 10 on thousands of people running windows 7 or 8.1, and for them,  it might have been running really good on relatively old hardware. Now, they are taking all of those systems that were running fine on older hardware and making them incompatible.

1. Old news. All reported here and plenty other sites
    
2. New Intel CPU (don't know for AMD) actually do need the latest version of Windows to match advertise performance and power draw. Windows 10 has the CPU communication tech needed to allow this. I recall Ars Technica made an article on this.
    
3. As for the "modern hardware part", if you are referring to Atom CPUs, this is a GPU driver problem which causes to not work right with Windows 10 Creator Update. A fix COULD be made, but these old Atom CPUs are outside of Intel support window, and so, Intel is not fixing it. Also, it has to do that the GPU features technologies from another company that Intel licenses, and it doesn't want to provide support. All in all, Intel doesn't want to spend the money. This is not Microsoft fault. Proof: Nvidia, AMD, and other Intel CPUs with integrated GPUs don't have problems. Also Intel discontinued Atom, which doesn't help anything in getting support out of them.
    
4. As for the not saying what needs to be upgraded.. NOTHING. These Intel CPUs are soldered on... you can't upgrade. You have to change pretty much the whole system!
    
5. These system initially came with Windows 8. Support for Windows 8.1 ends 2023. Microsoft offers Windows 10 support which have Anniversary Update and stuck there on this update, support until 2023 as well. So the user is not left out.

[Guest]

What should be news is how Microsoft support will try and get you to upgrade if you're running anything older than 10. (Speaking from personal experience.)