Re: New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10

5 Sep 2016

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On 9/3/2016 10:43 PM, grarpamp wrote:
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https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/01/2031247/new-intel-and-amd-chips...
Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation)
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processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the 
confirmation that they will have a Windows 10 future. Microsoft
has been warning people for ages that Kaby Lake will not run on
anything older than Windows 10, and it looks like AMD's upcoming
Zen chip will be going the same way. Microsoft said, "As new
silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest
Windows platform at that time for support. This enables us to focus
on deep integration between Windows and the silicon, while
maintaining maximum reliability and compatibility with previous
generations of platform and silicon." "We are committed to working
with Microsoft and our ecosystem partners to help ensure a smooth
transition given these changes to Microsoft's Windows support
policy," an Intel spokesperson said. "No, Intel will not be
updating Win 7/8 drivers for 7th Gen Intel Core [Kaby Lake] per 
Microsoft's support policy change." An AMD representative was
equally neutral. "AMD's processor roadmap is fully aligned with
Microsoft's software strategy," AMD chief technical officer Mark
Papermaster said, via a company spokeswoman.
I'm a bit late to the party but I wonder what this means for Linux and
BSD? With 'deep integrations' between the silicon and Windows 10, it
sounds like a lot of the functions of the chips night not be available
to anything but Windows 10.

Have either AMD or Intel made any statements on this?

Re: New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10

Anthony Papillion