From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Jim H wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:21:41 -0300, in   
   > , Shadow    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Intel has dropped the Skylake line of processors. It announced   
   >>the new line will ONLY support Win 10. No, not even Win 7 or 8.   
   >>A M$ lockout.   
   >>Desktop or not, you will be looking for second hand/old stock   
   >>processors. Motherboards ditto.   
   >>Not sure what the game is with AMD. Win 7, 8 and XP still have   
   >>over 60% of the market., despite M$'s inflated claims.   
   >   
   >   
   > How about Linux... and several other far lesser known OSes?   
      
   I imagine they will work on the new systems just fine, as will older version   
   of Windows. They just (probably) won't have drivers for the chipset or   
   something similar.   
      
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