These days there is no need to be upgrading your computer, if your current computer does what you need Many of us remember the days computers were slow, and RAM was limited, so computers did have to be upgraded every 2-3 years People paid for the operating system and guaranteed support until 2020, and Microsoft should honor that in my opinion.
Instead of communicating the change clearly to users, the least the company should do, it simply removed the Known Issue from the most recent KB article which looks like an attempt to obfuscate the issue to me. The handling by Microsoft is anything but open or straightforward. The Pentium III was not a new processor by any stretch when Windows 7 was released and Microsoft probably did a cost analysis to determine whether it is reasonable to patch the issue that affects only SSE2-less processors or simply drop support for those and live with the negative feedback instead. The only three options that affected users have is to continue using an unpatched system, upgrade the process of the system or get a new PC altogether, or switch to Linux. Upgrades to newer versions of Windows are out of the question as SSE2 is required for that. While Windows 7 runs fine if recent patches are not installed, it means that the system won't be protected by the latest security patches anymore that Microsoft released for the operating system. The total number of devices affected by this is unknown but users are in a predicament because of it. The change affects devices with Pentium III processors.
Microsoft's system requirements page for Windows 7 makes no mention of the limitation. SSE2 is a requirement for installing Windows 8 and newer versions of Windows, but it was never a requirement for installing Windows 7.
Woody Leonhard spotted another incident of Microsoft dropping support for some systems running Windows 7 Windows 7 users and admins who followed this year's Patch Tuesdays, you may remember that the KB article for the March 2018 update for Windows 7 mentioned a known issue affecting devices with processors that did not support SSE2.Ī Stop error occurs on computers that don't support Streaming Single Instructions Multiple Data (SIMD) Extensions 2 (SSE2). Microsoft revealed this month that its support agents won't support users anymore in the Windows 7 or Windows 8 forums on the company's Microsoft Answers support site despite the fact that Windows 7 and 8 are still supported by the company. Microsoft supports Windows 7 officially until January 2020 while the company won't end support for the operating system that it launched in 2009 early, it appears that Microsoft is trying to get users to upgrade to newer versions of Windows by limiting support and ignoring certain issues that were introduced in recent updates.
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