Soon, when you buy a new PC, it won't support Windows 7 or 8.<br />Microsoft has announced a change to its support policy that lays out its plans for future updates to its older operating systems, and the new rules mean that future PC owners with next-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will need to use Windows 10.<br />Microsoft and its partners will not be putting in the significant work necessary to make new hardware work with older versions of Windows.<br />The old operating systems, at best, will merely lack the latest updates.<br />At worst, they might not function properly.<br />"Going forward, as new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support," Microsoft notes in a blog post.
