Dropper still not support the new processors in older Windows – digi.no

After constantly having extended the deadline, Microsoft announced yesterday that the company still will not stop offering support for Intel’s sixth-generation Core processors, known as Skylake, in Windows 7 and 8.1 before the company also all other ways stop supporting these operating systems .

in January this year, Microsoft announced that the company would only maintain Skylake support in the two older Windows generations until the 17th June 2017, and only on selected PCs. Later the range of PCs greatly expanded. In addition, the deadline has been postponed by a year, and even longer for critical security updates.

But now promises Microsoft to offer full support for Skylake-based systems with either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 until respectively 14 January 2020 and January 10, 2023.

Emulation

Microsoft stated in January that the background for the time-limited support is that Windows 7 and 8.1 was added at a time before Intel’s sixth-generation Core processors was conceived and therefore not really have built-in support for many of the changes that have been made in the processor. To make it at all to work, expectations Windows 7 to the processor emulated drivers and firmware.

This increases the complexity of the system, which Microsoft must take into consideration when it released updates to the older operating systems.

Microsoft says that this extension of the deadline has been made possible because of the strong collaboration between the company’s OEM partners and Intel, which together will ensure that it carried out validation and upgrading testing security updates on the affected systems until support time for each of Windows versions expires.

the deadline, which also has been extended twice, was originally intended to give businesses adequate time to make a transition to Windows 10. But it is clear, although Microsoft does not say anything about it, that business customers have put considerable pressure on the company to get extended deadline.

Some support for even newer processors, ie as from the seventh generation from both Intel (Kabys Lake) and AMD (Bristol Ridge), will not come to older Windows versions than Windows 10.

Microsoft stated in July that Windows 10 has been installed on more than 350 million units.