Microsoft Pulls Windows 7 Support On Older CPUs when It Couldn’t Fix A Bug

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan

Intel Pentium III Mounted on a motherboard

Windows 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 techsupport for numerous product forums together with Windows 7.

A monthly security update pushed for Windows 7 in March 2018 (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 withZDNet, meant to enhance performance by enabling the cpu to process multimedia system in parallel. it had been introduced in Intel Pentium IV.

The BSOD issue didn’t flee within the monthly security rollups for the following months. Microsoft had secure that the corporate is functioning on a fix associated it’ll “provide associate update in an forthcoming unleash,” it same within the computer memory unit article. however it did not deliver any fix till Gregorian calendar month sixteen and updated the Monthly Rollup page for March instead.

“Upgrade your machines with a processor that supports SSE2 or virtualize those machines,” reads the updated computer memory unit article.

As seen during a Wayback Machine photograph, the computer memory unit article for Gregorian calendar month was additionally changed to get rid of the main points of the difficulty written beneath the renowned problems during this update section.

We’re halfway into the year 2018, and there might not be many folks running Windows seven on a processor that’s nearly twenty years previous. though Microsoft hasn’t created any official announcement, it looks the corporate is finished with the previous processors that don’t support SSE2. however if the move faces criticism from a substantial variety of users, it would compel Microsoft to rethink their call.

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