In a blog post addressed to enterprise customers, Terry Myerson, executive vice president at Microsoft, explained that new processors won’t run older versions of Windows reliably, and won’t be supported. The processors will require the current version of Windows to get enterprise support.
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If you changed your settings when you heard about Windows 10 storing your keystrokes and voice commands last time, looks like you’re going to have to do it all over again. Any PCs advertised as running sixth-generation Intel Core processors contain Skylake chips.
Moreover, he specifically stated that Windows 10 would be the only operating system supporting “Intel’s upcoming “Kaby Lake” silicon, Qualcomm’s upcoming “8996” silicon, and AMD’s upcoming “Bristol Ridge” silicon”.
While we’re still far from the debut of Redstone, the report claims that Microsoft wanted to keep on its promise to release Windows 10 builds faster to insiders, to the company worked specifically on improving its internal systems for this.
Windows 10 shifted to a twice-yearly update schedule, up from once every few years. (NASDAQ:AMD) to make their future chips only compatible with Windows 10. The second could launch in November and is likely to be a bigger update to Windows. 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. That gives companies an 18-month grace period to buy modern hardware for employees before committing and implementing upgrades to Windows 10. Alternatively, they’ll have to plan upgrades to Windows 10 on that new hardware, and there will be a July 2017 deadline to carry out those upgrades.
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If there were doubts about how Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) would reach 1 billion devices with Windows 10 in the next two to three years, wonder no more. By making this change, PC makers will only need to worry about Windows 10 support.
