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If you changed your settings when you heard about Windows 10 storing your keystrokes and voice commands last time, looks like you’re going to have to do it all over again. Running the OS on newer PCs requires “device drivers and firmware…to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states- which is challenging for Wi-Fi, graphics, security, and more”. (NASDAQ:AMD) to make their future chips only compatible with Windows 10.

The strategy is that anyone who acquires a hardware system with the next-generation chips from Intel, Qualcomm and AMD will only have the option to run Windows 10 on it. Put differently, it will not be possible to run Windows 8 or earlier versions of Windows on systems powered by Intel’s 6th generation Skylake processor and future processors from Intel, Qualcomm and others.

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Windows 7 will continue to be supported for security, reliability, and compatibility through January 14, 2020 on previous generation silicon.

“Windows 8.1 will receive the same support through January 10, 2023”.

The fact that new systems will not accept older versions of Windows doesn’t mean that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is ending their support immediately. This includes most of the devices available for purchase today by consumers or enterprises. That gives companies an 18-month grace period to buy modern hardware for employees before committing and implementing upgrades to Windows 10. The second could launch in November and is likely to be a bigger update to Windows.

Those bullet points are somewhat contradictory, taken altogether.

In a nutshell, Microsoft’s executive vice president Terry Myerson stated that the new processors can not reliably run the older Windows versions and therefore, won’t be supported.

Windows 10 is speculation to be the latest major Windows upgrade.

Possibly, this new policy change will affect organizations that plan to exercise downgrade rights on new Windows 10 PCs.