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Microsoft, in a bid to ensure users of 7th generation Intel Core "Kaby Lake," AMD A-series "Bristol Ridge," and AMD Ryzen "Summit Ridge" processors stick to Windows 10, ensured that the three platforms don't receive software updates when running older Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 operating systems. A new user-made patch removes this draconian restriction, letting you install Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on your new-generation CPU powered machine, and receive regular software updates through Windows Update.

The patch is open-source, so you can inspect its code, and available on GitHub. The author of the patch, Zeffy, discovered two new functions to system file wuaueng.dll after the March 2017 update for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, labeled "IsCPUSupported(void)" and "IsDeviceServiceable(void)." This library is patched to toggle those two functions "1," telling Windows Update that the CPU is "supported" and that the platform is "serviceable," making it eligible to receive updates.

 

Download - https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19

 

To Micro$oft I say "In your - money driven, bug ridden, data grabbing, privacy invading... face!"

 

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sounds like the halo 2 patch, which fixed the 'you can only run game on windows vista', patch told game that windows xp was vista.

 

Most useful fix ever. Vista never really recovered.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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The obvious goal is to let the majority buy new PC's pre-installed with Win 10. Win 7 is too comfortable for many people.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide#monthly-201703-201703-bar

 

I bought a Lumia 550 and it seems that even phones are going hand in hand with this wave of continuous updates delivered fastidiously both on PC and mobile devices.
​Win 10 definitely went a long way regardless into doing good things for the user - starting at least with dark mode and night mode that allows customization of screen brightness - versus the old win 95/98 era of a rudimentary, Spartan setting of inverting the colour contrast.
​As long as you don't use Windows Insider (beta versions of win) you should be just as fine on Win 10 as you would be on Win 7.

​Microsoft will achieve its goal in any case. Sooner or later. That's if they want to reaffirm their authority in the PC market and to be competitive with mobile devices (we'll see about that).

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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Most useful fix ever. Vista never really recovered.

Unfortunately, neither did Halo 2. The way that they locked it to Windows Vista ensured that it never established a large player base on the PC, and support for online play was quietly terminated by Microsoft a few years ago. In comparison, people are still playing Halo 1 on the PC online today!

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Its worth pointing out that Microsoft could quite easily get this pulled if they wanted to.

 

They won't. This time it's all in. GFWL was a failure catastrophic for any game at the time in 2008 on PC (Fallout 3, Red Faction Guerilla, GTA IV). Hopefully Microsoft learned from the lesson. Windows Store is here to stay.

Tbh I'm kinda glad because It's ridiculous how polarized and far away consoles are from the PC market. At least something to make Microsoft turn their eye back in this field.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, neither did Halo 2. The way that they locked it to Windows Vista ensured that it never established a large player base on the PC, and support for online play was quietly terminated by Microsoft a few years ago. In comparison, people are still playing Halo 1 on the PC online today!

 

True. But it was the singleplayer from which all the fuss was about. Atm there's such an FPS online saturation on the market that I think only die hards will care.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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