M$ Purposely Blocks Windows Update on CPUs

[Bryan]

It's not quite as bad as you make it sound. MS spent a bunch of time/effort/money/engineering resources adding Broadwell support on Win7/Win8 which are basically retired. They announced at the time that Broadwell would be the last generation of Intel processors to be supported. From a business perspective why would they continue to invest in old OSs?

It's like XP, there comes a time to move on.

[Haunted Forest]

I knew it, last few win 7 builds would not update

[John P. Myers]

It's not quite as bad as you make it sound. MS spent a bunch of time/effort/money/engineering resources adding Broadwell support on Win7/Win8 which are basically retired. They announced at the time that Broadwell would be the last generation of Intel processors to be supported. From a business perspective why would they continue to invest in old OSs?

It's like XP, there comes a time to move on.

They also spent a bunch of time/energy/resources making Win 10 compatible with a Pentium 3 for no reason The differences between the backend of Win 10 and 7 aren't that different. They make it sound like a monumental effort when a simple copy/paste of the code from Win 10 into 7 puts them at 95% completion.

There's also the issue where only Win 10 will support multi-GPU rendering in the Vulkan API. M$ claims this is because WDDM 2.0 is required which only exists for Win 10. However, Vulkan has no problem using multi-GPU setups in Linux where no version of WDDM exists at all.