[upchuck]

Regarding the last sentence, I don't think so. 1000s of PCs, maybe more, owned by companies like UPS and Ford are still running Win 7. And, from what I read, there's no big push to go to Win 10, mostly because Win 10 doesn't offer much of anything new for these users.

Win 10 offer nothing new and usable for me so I'm planning to staying with Win 7 as long as possible. All updates turned off.

[rockrr]

The obvious (to me at least) fallout for this doesn’t impact MS as much as it will Intel and AMD. If your customer base wants a particular product (Windows 7) and you restrict them for a platform to host their product they simply won’t buy your product. Watch sales of Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen chips languish and sales of RAM and (replacement) hard drives spike as users hold on to older hardware longer.

Shortsighted business decision - what I’ve come to expect from Microsoft.

[miliantnutcase]

I will bet you anything Win 7 Enterprise will be excluded. I doubt they will force this on their enterprise customers.

[zeugma]

Looks like a very microsoft-centered article. Linux is going to be supported on these chips. There is no technical reason MS couldn’t issue an update to make Win7 work with them. This is purely a business decision on Microsoft’s part to continue to push people on to Win10. I remember back when I7 was first introduced. At the time, at least until microsoft got off their ass, the only OS you could initially run was Linux.