Suddenly, Microsoft says you can't use Windows 7 & 8.1 on your new PC! Idiots.

Microsoft makes utterly dumb change to its Windows support rules. Completely unexpectedly, older versions of Windows won't get support on the latest hardware.

Yes, you read that right: You won't be able to run Windows 7 or 8.1 on Skylake CPUs (or later). There's a get-out-of-jail-free card for a while, but this is just the latest irritating Microsoft scheme to get everyone onto Windows 10.

The way it's always been in the past is that enterprises could buy today's hardware, but run their current image on it, only upgrading when it suited their risk profile, and so on. But with this move, Microsoft has changed everything -- and given precisely zero warning.

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