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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The distinction between "supported on" and "runs on" got lost somewhere...  |
Well, Microsoft is not above deliberately sabotaging Windows. For example, the well known compatibility issue between D.R. DOS and Windows 3.1:
The Register article from 1999
Method employed to make Windows 3.1 incompatible with D.R. DOS
I *can* actually see them changing something in Windows 7, pushing a 'security update', which makes the OS very unstable on Skylake after 2017 (who have to be upgraded to Windows 10 somewhere in 2017), and Kaby Lake from the start.
"Sorry people; it's not supported on those CPU's. If it's unstable, tough luck."
The bad thing is that Windows 10 itself is unstable at this point in time.
(By the way: if you use Windows 8.1, spare yourself a lot of grief by NOT installing the Intel Rapid Storage drivers above. The list of known issues under Windows 8.1 is *HUGE* and almost unending. On Windows 10, IRST only has three or four known and unresolved issues at this time.)