Intel Skylake Removes Support for USB based Windows 7 Installation

Major Platform Specs Confirmed

Source :- Wccf

 

No thanks.

 

Intel better pray that Win10 has a hell of an uptake rate seeing as how Skylake would be limited to running only Windows8.x and Windows10 if the OP is true.... That's enough to even keep ME from buying Skylake at this point, and I refuse to run anything below Win8....

 

Windows 7 is still a prevalent OS and is likely to remain so for quite sometime. The whole thing seems so unnecessary, how exactly does removing support for that host controller benefit the end user? How does it affect Linux?

 

Sounds like a way to force users off Linux...... At least the live distros anyway.

 

Well, I had been looking forward to Skylake.

 

Forcefeeding at it best, now from intel and ms talk about hellmarry, They better hope pray window 10 successes to get back people good graces. or it will back fire on both of them

 

Strange move by Intel. Really high hopes for W10.

 

AMD is looking more appealing....

 

Meh, I'll not be going back to Win 7 (Never thought I'd hear myself say that) so as long as Win 8.1 and Win 10 can be installed via USB, makes no difference to me

It is a bit of a sh1tty move for people who still run 7 though, they've obviously gone out of their way to block Win 7 installs rather than leaving people with a choice

Seems we're losing a lot of choice with PC related things lately

 

so broadwell-K will only be fully supported by Z100 series board and have some compatibilty for Z97 board but no support for Z87?

Have I read that right?

 

Yup.

 

what a bunch of ... you know what... lol

was hoping to jump onto broadwell-k with my z87 board.

Might see how much the Z100 board will go for on launch and also see how well broadwell-k overclocks and see if it still has the haswell bug when running avx stuff that heats the fpu up on the cpu to extreme temps.

 

lol what is this word magic? xD

At first he goes Broadwell LGA1150 will use 100 chipset and also be 9 series compatible, but then Skylake will need chipset 100 and still be Broadwell compatible? How can Z170 chipset with LGA1151 support cpu LGA1150, if we go by this logic then LGA1156 would support LGA1155 cpus,.. not.

Edit:

Spoiler

btw this is what one intel tech guy said once about Broadwell and chipset support, this was back in 2013 September, no sign of Z97, H97 etc, Z87 was ~3months old.

Fastforward to ~20sec,




It looked to me as he was talking in general, not just Broadwell-Y specific.


And here 8 series chipset (PCH) extends through both, not just Broadwell, while (cons) is also 9 series compatible



And so far 8series got a firmware update and its now Dc compatible, while before apparently no way.. Yes 8 series will miss few features (mostly security IMEI specific), but it should work anyway, although they won't say it until the end, no doubt.


Just my 2cents:nerd:

 

so if Im reading this correctly, they are removing usb 2 and using only on usb 3?


I understand usb 3.0 is backward compatible but....



some usb 2.0 devices are not compatible with usb 3.0



I have at lest 2 devices that wont work correctly on usb 3.

my mouse is one of them and my usb tv tuner.

 

Intel finally brings noteworthy performance upgrade over my system for gaming and they are going to cripple some of my devices.
There goes $150 keyboard, there goes my old command unit.

 

Very good, time to move forward and cut out old standards. Make newer, better ones more popular. You guys can always sell that old $150 keyboard to someone who do not plan to upgrade.

 

I do not plan to upgrade from mechanical to very same mechanical as that has only new color things as additional feature and that would change nothing since control logic is exactly same. Its firmware can't be even updated via USB3.0.

Upon research many keyboards share same logic. One would not believe that $150 can have inside same chips as $300, but they do.
While my cheaper one has full anti ghosting, that top model does not but has a nice color indeed (what a joke).
And considering other peripherals, why would someone throw away perfectly working device? It only increases cost of new platform.

If any of my Saitek devices would not work, It would increase price of good MB approximately by 50%.

 

Since I have no real reason to upgrade so long as this system is functional, I'll just wait it out and see what AMD brings with their new architecture next year (if it launches on time for once....)

 

:eek3:

your processor is better then anything amd will make........................