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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
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...
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Okay, I'm not going to make a career out of this thread, but I don't think you fully understand what I'm saying. Let me try one more time.
Currently computers with Intel Skylake CPUs are being sold and people have installed Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on them. They work fine. They're currently fully supported and -- if they are specific computer models -- will continue to be completely supported until July, 2017. At that point -- even though these computers will run Windows 7 or 8.1 fine, Microsoft will no longer update Windows 7 or 8.1 on these specific computers (although they will still be updating older CPUs until 2020 and 2023). This is an arbitrary, and unnecessary, decision. It has nothing to do with how well Windows 7 is running on the Skylake CPUs in July, 2017 -- it has everything to do with forcing their customers to move to Windows 10.