Microsoft cuts off Windows 10 support early for some PCs

wordsworth said:

" The irony in this case is that Microsoft aggressively pushed the free Windows 10 upgrade offer to the owners of these devices, turning up the pressure dramatically as the July 2016 cutoff date approached. Now, less than a year later, those devices are being cut off without notice."

Therein can lawyers begin to salivate and owners of these machines get their ire up, understandably. I should think MS and Intel will correct this as a class action could well be successful given the above which is why if I owned one these machines I'd rather that they got it corrected than wait for a legal "remedy" where the lawyers get more out of it anyway.

It always makes me laugh when people start thinking lawyers in these situations. It's a lot more complicated than you think. And Microsoft did actually warn of this early. The fact that some didn't think this would happen is irrelevant here. In short, MS, didn't do anything that wasn't stated.

NOW... is it right is another story, but legally, I see no standing here. But, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I have any legal training. I'm just going on life experience, and in the end, I'm thinking MS would prevail for the basic reason explained above. But, then again, I'm also one who still don't see how common sense didn't prevail in the hot coffee between the legs case, in which McDonald's lost

Winuser said:

I think MS should stop forcing updates and allow users to only choose security updates on these older systems.

Driver updates should be optional. I just don't get why they did that?

Is the issue Microsoft's or Intel's? or maybe both? Honestly asking? If it's a driver issue it could be either one? I couldn't really tell from that article.

Two 10+ year old desktop PC's running Windows 10 with no issues. AMD CPU's, Athlon II and Phenom II, with as old NVidia Video cards etc in them. YMMV

alphanumeric said:

Is the issue Microsoft's or Intel's? or maybe both? Honestly asking? If it's a driver issue it could be either one? I couldn't really tell from that article.

To me the issue stems from Microsoft's side where they've set the parameter of when Windows should refuse to update. Problem is who are they to say when or what hardware is "outdated"?

And yes, this seems to be putting the ball squarely in the hardware vendors court. That in turn could be put squarely on the consumer's back as they're now forced to make more frequent upgrade purchases.

We already see this kind of slinky crap from Creative where they tend to release new products rather than driver update their older products, Ironically whenever MS releases a new OS. Instead of getting workable driver updates for the current cards, Creative pushes out a new product leaving the "old" cards crippled or bugged under the new OS.

Anyway I'm hoping this is an oversight by MS, and not a new norm. Time will tell in how they address this issue.

My two cents.

sygnus21 said:

To me the issue stems from Microsoft's side where they've set the parameter of when Windows should refuse to update. Problem is who are they to say when or what hardware is "outdated"?

And yes, this seems to be putting the ball squarely in the hardware vendors court. That in turn could be put squarely on the consumer's back as they're now forced to make more frequent upgrade purchases.

We already see this kind of slinky crap from Creative where they tend to release new products rather than driver update their older products, Ironically whenever MS releases a new OS. Instead of getting workable driver updates for the current cards, Creative pushes out a new product leaving the "old" cards crippled or bugged under the new OS.

Anyway I'm hoping this is an oversight by MS, and not a new norm. Time will tell in how they address this issue.

My two cents.

So you'd rather have Windows install, and then immediately BSOD on the first reboot? Because that's what's likely to happen with a bad of missing chip-set driver. In most cases it's easy enough to just disable other non supported hardware but in this case we're talking about the CPU. I'm not saying its right or wrong, what they are doing, just think about why they may have to do it. There may be other issues such as performance, reliability, etc tied to this particular issue.

Plain and simple!

HERE is the reason why the hardware is not supported in the future.