Microsoft Pulls Windows 7 Support On Older CPUs when It Couldn’t Fix A Bug
W indows 7 is already reckoning its days before Microsoft terminates the extended support cycle for the popular software package that solely receives security updates. Recently, the corporate force official tech support for numerous product forums together with Windows 7 . A monthly security update pushed for Windows 7 in March 2 018 (KB4088875) caused a blue screen of death (STOP error) on machines running older CPUs that don’t support Streaming Single Instruction Multiple information (SIMD) Extensions 2 (SSE2). This affects CPUs together with the Intel Pentium III lineup sold-out between 1999 and 2003. Back then, SSE2 (a SIMD extension) was a brand new multimedia instruction set that was, in line with ZDNet, meant to enhance performance by enabling the cp...