New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10

Anthony Papillion anthony at cajuntechie.org
Mon Sep 5 14:57:33 PDT 2016


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On 9/3/2016 10:43 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/01/2031247/new-intel-and-amd-chips-will-only-support-windows-10
>
> 
Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation)
> 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?



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