Why you can’t upgrade your 7th gen Intel CPU for Win11

<p><br></p><p><strong>Lets see what happens. This was merely a talk about those older machines at home beyond 2 years which Microsoft will now not let run and a very old operating system like Windows New Technology from 90’ties will all respect to Jim.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>As it makers the end of support for older PCs this will also mark the end of support for very old operating systems like Windows NT (OS/2) – and pave the way for user adoption of completely new operating systems. Let the games begin of new operating systems. Finally :)</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Bill Gates out the board. Steve B not there. Many engineers left for Google. Around 2012, among through MS Partner Network, more power to engineers instead of too many product managers and business folks. </p><p><br></p><p>So seems like the business people are coming back to interfer. Business development – a hardware and software company. However, I stopped buying Microsoft hardware – beyond a mouse or a keyboard – after 5-7 lumia phones and suddenly end-of-life to Windows Phone. Propelled by end of life to Kinect. Around 2001, Google passed Microsoft late with Googles cloud platform. Meanwhile Microsoft had Hailstorm, then My Services – and shut it down, explaination to R&amp;D in i.e. IBM and others, we dont know what the business model should be like? Picked up again with WIndows Live shortly after though.</p><p><br></p><p>When first Surfaces machs came out – before engineers was running decisions in MS again, Surface Pro came out as an Enterprise offer by Product Management with a 100 mb/s LAN port. HAH HAH HAH. No real sales. </p><p><br></p><p>I participated heavily in testing WIndows Client from Vista, ie switch of Taskbar in WIndows 7, and Quick Access in Windows 10 (during testing of Win8 – among things came out of a comparison of ui between Finder and Explorer. Ie. the ability to use concepts in the UI).</p><p><br></p><p>I must say Windows 11 seems ok in terms of the UI. They tried to keep the navigation down to one click i.e. the previous search in the taskbar and focusing on touch support.</p><p><br></p><p>The CPU stuff does not make sense though. The feature since Haswell is not that different for each generation. More performance improovements. There are E-chips as well with higher bandwidth. Windows 11 still supports Atom and Celeron – that without feature improovements are inferior to older CPUS. </p><p><br></p><p>Beyond consumer market, cheap machines or expensive if about looks, the workstation market is higher investing. Machine start – if oem or self-build from 3500 USD. My last build from 2018 was an ongoing build around 10000 USD.</p><p>So longer lifespan. Used for flightsim. A build in 2007 around 3000 USD was used for testing flight sims in aviation industry around 2010-2011. The cheapest matching machine from IBM was 10000 USD or three times the price.</p><p><br></p><p>Microsoft is mostly business computing. Guess they are focusing on mass comsuption in Enterprise market. So speciel mostly rendering systems and high performance game equipment with a shortened lifespan down to – 2-3 years, while need some aggressive marketing and price drops. Else Linux will prevail for those machines. An offer of Prepar3D on Linux or Microsoft Flight Simulator would be great. Dont want to spend 10000 USD / 24 months = approx 400 USD a month to have proper equipment.</p><p><br></p><p>So it will expand the market for leasing high performance machines because to the quick value decrease. Nobody wants to bear that risks. So many machines will not be sellable if you have to through it out. Or heacy buy back solutions.</p><p><br></p><p>New business models will come from this. I already for Windows made the decision to stop buying machine. For some applications 400 USD a month, rent is much cheaper alternative. With 5G and fiber plus heavy cpu routing a online workstation may be better.</p><p><br></p><p>So getting close to a game changer here. I already stopped trust MS on hw since Windows Mobile, Kinect etc. This just adds to its volatile decision making. </p><p><br></p><p>Win11 as far goes. Else Linux. Including video editing. The UI in Windows is not fantastic anyway. The neglected to develop one of its most important features for years, the file system, ie crc, queing, datalifecycle managemtn, oo (aim already around Vista), much more. No more lead. Lack of APIs to improove stuff. Possible in Linux.</p><p><br></p><p>High performance workstations – while depens on app developers. When Apple bought German Emagic to force Logic users onto Apples MacOS platform. Now Ableton Live is dominating. However, the average poor musicans is not going to buy a highend workstation every 2-3 year. They already said bye to Apple then. So there will be a request for Linux</p><p><br></p><p>This will make Linux enter the pro market. High investment management. It will happen, but may be would have happened anyway. I.e. WIndows (New Technology) is old – 90’ties. 30 years. Not an operating system of the future. Nor is Linux.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Lets see what happens. This was merely a talk about those older machines at home beyond 2 years which Microsoft will now not let run and a very old operating system like Windows New Technology from 90’ties will all respect to Jim.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>As it makers the end of support for older PCs this will also mark the end of support for very old operating systems like Windows NT (OS/2) – and pave the way for user adoption of completely new operating systems. Let the games begin of new operating systems. Finally :)</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Then golden age is at hand, the best is yet to come.</strong></p><p><strong>Enjoy, Computermensch</strong></p>