dell why you dont make drivers for windows 7 i relly need windows 7 i have programs is it that hard to make drivers??????????? Pls reply if you make drivers i will be proud
Windows 7 is dead and gone as far as updates as of January, 2020. As such, it should not be used online for any reason.
This system uses a 7th generation Kaby Lake CPU - no Windows 7 support at all. Even if Dell wanted to release drivers, neither Microsoft nor Intel have any support for 7. With Windows, 10 is your only option.
@swerfot You will likely be wasting your time if you expect all of your hardware to work (or at least work properly). The last couple of Intel WiFi chipset generations only support Windows 10. I'm pretty sure USB-C video output and Thunderbolt 3 require Windows 10 too, so unless you only want to use it as a USB 3.x port with a different shape, you'd be stuck there. NVMe as a system disk would require either enabling RAID mode so you can have the Intel RST controller abstract the NVMe interface from the OS -- but to my knowledge that breaks Linux, which doesn't have an RST driver -- or else you'd have to manually inject a pair of NVMe hotfixes into your Windows 7 install media AND the Windows 7 WIM file you'd be using for installing the OS onto your system. But in addition to being a bit of a tedious process, I'm not sure how reliable they are. When Microsoft released them, they did so in the update category of, "These should only be installed if needed, and reduced support is provided", not as regular Windows updates.
Consider a Windows 7 VM if you really need it for some specific purpose, but it's not a good idea to run an OS that's no longer getting security updates as your main environment. That will allow you to keep your main system better protected, especially since if Windows XP's retirement is any indication, browser vendors will stop providing updates on Windows 7 systems soon too, which will make it even less safe to use on today's Internet. There are already multiple known significant security vulnerabilities on Windows 7 that are unlikely to ever be patched because Microsoft isn't supporting it. Just as a frame of reference, most of the monthly cumulative updates for Windows 10 in 2020 thus far have fixed over 100 security vulnerabilities EACH -- and given that Microsoft tends to carry legacy code forward forever, many of those will exist on Windows 7, but they won't be getting PATCHED on Windows 7. At least if you run a VM, you'll be able to keep your core system running something newer.
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dell why you dont make drivers for windows 7 i relly need windows 7 i have programs is it that hard to make drivers??????????? Pls reply if you make drivers i will be proud
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Windows 7 is dead and gone as far as updates as of January, 2020. As such, it should not be used online for any reason.
This system uses a 7th generation Kaby Lake CPU - no Windows 7 support at all. Even if Dell wanted to release drivers, neither Microsoft nor Intel have any support for 7. With Windows, 10 is your only option.
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@swerfot You will likely be wasting your time if you expect all of your hardware to work (or at least work properly). The last couple of Intel WiFi chipset generations only support Windows 10. I'm pretty sure USB-C video output and Thunderbolt 3 require Windows 10 too, so unless you only want to use it as a USB 3.x port with a different shape, you'd be stuck there. NVMe as a system disk would require either enabling RAID mode so you can have the Intel RST controller abstract the NVMe interface from the OS -- but to my knowledge that breaks Linux, which doesn't have an RST driver -- or else you'd have to manually inject a pair of NVMe hotfixes into your Windows 7 install media AND the Windows 7 WIM file you'd be using for installing the OS onto your system. But in addition to being a bit of a tedious process, I'm not sure how reliable they are. When Microsoft released them, they did so in the update category of, "These should only be installed if needed, and reduced support is provided", not as regular Windows updates.
Consider a Windows 7 VM if you really need it for some specific purpose, but it's not a good idea to run an OS that's no longer getting security updates as your main environment. That will allow you to keep your main system better protected, especially since if Windows XP's retirement is any indication, browser vendors will stop providing updates on Windows 7 systems soon too, which will make it even less safe to use on today's Internet. There are already multiple known significant security vulnerabilities on Windows 7 that are unlikely to ever be patched because Microsoft isn't supporting it. Just as a frame of reference, most of the monthly cumulative updates for Windows 10 in 2020 thus far have fixed over 100 security vulnerabilities EACH -- and given that Microsoft tends to carry legacy code forward forever, many of those will exist on Windows 7, but they won't be getting PATCHED on Windows 7. At least if you run a VM, you'll be able to keep your core system running something newer.