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Originally Posted by rcentros
No, you're missing the point. Windows 7 and 8.1 won't be supported on the newer CPUs. It's not an ambiguous proposition -- it means exactly what they say it means (as quoted in earlier posts). These two versions of Windows were supposed to be supported until 2020 and and 2023 -- there was no mention of "not on newer CPUs" until now. Microsoft has never done anything like this before.
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Won't be supported doesn't mean won't run. It might still work, but if you run into problems (somethings most likely won't work), don't go back to MS and demand that they fix it.
We bought a new mediacenter PC in 2012 (or 2013, when did Windows 8.1 come out?). We had an official MediaCenter edition of Windows XP (that machine was ancient!). We couldn't install it on that new PC (not that we wanted it, we got a new PC and we wanted a new OS to go with it). We simply could not install it, even if we wanted to (the upgrade process was a bit of a pain because of that as we wanted to make use of the cheap upgrade your XP or Windows 7 to Windows 8 option).
Oh, you do know that you can quote multiple posts in one post? No need to make new posts for each quote...