Recently, I read an article about latest Intel, AMD processors that now it only supports Windows 10 and the future releases requires latest release of Windows 10. Shad Larsen, Microsoft’s director of Windows business planning has also recently blogged about this last month.
At the recent launch of Kaby Lake and Zen chips, the Intel veep Navin Shenoy announced that Kaby Lake, Summit Ridge (Zen CPUs) and Briston Ridge(Excavator APUs) are all only for Windows 10. Initially, Microsoft was proposed to speed Skylake away from Windows 7/8 as well, but later on they decided to provide support throughout its lifespan until Windows 7 exists support in 2020.
You can also watch this video on youtube where Navin Shenoy Describes Intel’s 7th Gen Intel Core Processor.
Although this transition has also happened earlier when all hardware reaches to a point where it doesn’t supports outdated operating systems. But this event is happening quickly and that’s maybe due to the reason that Windows 7, like Windows XP before it, remained for long in this industry. In addition, Microsoft is actually pushing customers to its new product, Windows 10 by killing support for Windows 7.
Now, What about Linux, BSD, OS X?
Actually, Intel’s Kaby Lake and AMD’s Zen-based chips are not locked down to the Windows 10. Don’t worry they’ll boot Linux, BSDs, OS X, home-brew kernels and whatever software supports them. So if you wanna use Linux or any other non-Windows operating system on new processors, you’ll be fine. I have checked it, and it works fine.
 |
| Tech Swirl: Innovations and Future |
No comments:
Post a Comment