April 11, 2017 - KB4015549 (Monthly Rollup)

SIW2 said:

Afaik it is to prevent win7 users from having Intel 7th-gen processors aka Kaby Lake and AMD Zen/Ryzen aka Bristol Ridge.

I believe at one stage MS were intending to block 7 from Skylake, but they appear to have backed down on that.

I had read that they originally did a U-turn and were going to allow the updates on Skylake, but then I read recently that they're only going to allow updates on Skylake until 2018. So they will apparently start blocking those next year.

Edit: I've just checked and I might be wrong on this. Think I'm getting my CPU generations mixed up.
Last one I bought was Haswell so I haven't been keeping up to date with which is which.

Anak said:

But...They're going to send one to fix it!...

Only to fix the bork up they made where its blocking certain older AMD CPU's.

But yeah... Great idea!

Early last year, MS stated that Skylake processors running W7/W8 would be part of the so-called lockout. Few months later, they said that those processors would be supported only through July 2018. Few months later, they said that all 6th Gen Intel processors would be supported until the end-of-life of W7/W8.

I also read that those who have the Carizzo chip and have already installed KB4015549 can simply uninstall that particular update and just wait till MS issues a patch.

Sky Ranch said:

Early last year, MS stated that Skylake processors running W7/W8 would be part of the so-called lockout. Few months later, they said that those processors would be supported only through July 2018. Few months later, they said that all 6th Gen Intel processors would be supported until the end-of-life of W7/W8.

I also read that those who have the Carizzo chip and have already installed KB4015549 can simply uninstall that particular update and just wait till MS issues a patch.

Thanks Sky Range, yeah seems I got it the wrong way round on Skylake CPU's

Brds7t7 said:

Thanks Sky Range, yeah seems I got it the wrong way round on Skylake CPU's

As the saying goes, the only constant in life is change, and the way Microsoft's new strategy is unfolding that often leads me confused and disoriented.