A while back, Microsoft let the world know that it’d only support recent CPUs in the Intel Kaby Lake, AMD Ryzen,…
A while back, Microsoft let the world know that it’d only support recent CPUs in the Intel Kaby Lake, AMD Ryzen, and Qualcomm 8996 families under Windows 10. Now, there’s a little smoke and fire in some corners of the internet, though, since a Microsoft Knowledge Base page has popped up about a potential error message that users with systems based on the forementioned CPUs might encounter when running Windows Update. More to the point, you might be told that «your PC uses a processor that isn’t supported on this version of Windows,» and that you’ll need to upgrade to Windows 10.
Despite this bit of news making the rounds around the web, and the fact that there’s a running Reddit thread with close to 600 comments on the subject, there have yet to be reports of systems in the wild where this error message popped up. The support page doesn’t appear to be a fluke, though, since searching the Knowledge Base for article 4012982 yields results in multiple languages.
The company stated back as early as August 2016 that Windows 10 is the only supported version for new-generation systems, and its FAQ says as much:
Rather predictably, some commenters are up in arms about this event, assuming it ever pops up in production systems.
