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| Thread ID: 141592 | 2016-01-17 04:32:00 | Is this true? | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 1414582 | 2016-01-17 04:32:00 | www.theverge.com | DeSade (984) | ||
| 1414583 | 2016-01-17 04:40:00 | It is being reported on a wide range of tech websites, so probably. Nothing would surprise me as far as M$ and underhanded tactics are concerned. I have moved all my computing to Linux now and I seriously doubt I'll bother with Windows much in the future, they are spying on everything you do now, according to several websites and I just can't be arsed with their crap anymore. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1414584 | 2016-01-17 06:14:00 | Thats not the only prob with some Skylake cpus's. (www.theinquirer.net) A BIOS update MAY or may not fix it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1414585 | 2016-01-18 21:56:00 | The freezing is a worry..... Nothing I can do about the W10 thing thou, I need an upgrade guess that means I move to 10 regardless. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1414586 | 2016-01-18 22:46:00 | I've been using Skylake since August with no complaints. Thanks for the prompt though Speedy, 10 BIOS updates since release including one last thursday which might be the fix for that bug. All of them say improve system stability too, so might be worth updating :) As for the OP is it really much of an issue for normal users? What I mean is, when a new version of windows comes out is it such a big deal to stick with the OS you are using until the hardware needs replacing? It will stop my tendency to always use the latest perhaps and maybe hurt MS sales a little but if it had been the case already I'd happily still be using windows 7 on my older hardware. And on the other side of it, anyone buying new hardware that want's to run older versions of windows - that's always had limitations but it may be the bit that causes the most anger. Still a new CPU is likely to still run on older versions, just maybe not optimally. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1414587 | 2016-01-18 23:08:00 | I am in the second category in not really wanting to "upgrade" to Win10 but I do want optimum performance from a machine I will be spending thousands on. | DeSade (984) | ||
| 1414588 | 2016-01-20 06:55:00 | Intel's Skylake vPro chips will support Windows 7 after all: www.pcworld.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1414589 | 2016-01-20 08:47:00 | That Link gave me a laugh The PC market is slumping partly because businesses are slow to upgrade PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 10, according to IDC. Intel is maintaining support for Windows 7 considering enterprises are still using the old OS, though the chips will aid in the transition to Windows 10, said Tom Garrison, vice president and general manager of business client products at Intel. Our work is still running XP and is getting ready to upgrade to 7 sometime this year, chance of seeing windows 10 there any time this decade are remote :) |
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