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Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10

If you own a system with an Intel 6th generation Core processor—more memorably known as Skylake—and run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you'll have to think about upgrading to Windows 10 within the next 18 months. Microsoft announced today that after July 17, 2017, only the "most critical" security fixes will be released for those platforms and those fixes will only be made available if they don't "risk the reliability or compatibility" of Windows 7 and 8.1 on other (non-Skylake) systems.

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  • Gozzin
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    Going forward, the company says that using the latest generation processors will always require the latest generation operating system.

    Which for me,is a Linux distro.

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