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Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

Richard Plinston

Re: The more they push - the harder they will fall

> Does anyone know if the Linux community has started development work on these chipsets?

With the first x86-64 CPUs, Linux was the first implementation.

"""Linux was the first operating system kernel to run the x86-64 architecture in long mode, starting with the 2.4 version in 2001 (preceding the hardware's availability)."""

The initial Windows x86-64 implementation worked on AMD but failed on Intel CPUs.

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