I took a look at other articles as well and I read them slightly differently. Basically my understanding is that if you want to fully utilize your skylake processor you have to use Windows 10. Also driver support for the processor and chipsets may not/will not be available for anything below Windows 10.
The article further mentioned AMD's upcoming "Bristol Ridge" silicon --- as well as Qualcomm's upcoming "8996" silicon --- as being in the same category with Intel's "Kaby Lake" processor... but I didn't want to add these extra complexities to my summary. So "going AMD" is NOT the answer to this particular issue.
Basically they are shooting themselves in the foot. The skylake boat was already missed as OEMs still put windows 7 and 8.x on them. With nextgen processors from Intel coming out, the only way to 'stop' people from using windows 7 or 8.x is to simply not have driver support which will erk a lot of people, although maybe not enough to create an impact. Windows 10 while a nice looking OS, still has way to many flaws and stability issues for consumers let alone businesses.
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I took a look at other articles as well and I read them slightly differently. Basically my understanding is that if you want to fully utilize your skylake processor you have to use Windows 10. Also driver support for the processor and chipsets may not/will not be available for anything below Windows 10.
Another reason to go AMD imho.
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The article further mentioned AMD's upcoming "Bristol Ridge" silicon --- as well as Qualcomm's upcoming "8996" silicon --- as being in the same category with Intel's "Kaby Lake" processor... but I didn't want to add these extra complexities to my summary. So "going AMD" is NOT the answer to this particular issue.
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January 19th, 2016 09:00
Basically they are shooting themselves in the foot. The skylake boat was already missed as OEMs still put windows 7 and 8.x on them. With nextgen processors from Intel coming out, the only way to 'stop' people from using windows 7 or 8.x is to simply not have driver support which will erk a lot of people, although maybe not enough to create an impact. Windows 10 while a nice looking OS, still has way to many flaws and stability issues for consumers let alone businesses.