{"id":175719,"date":"2016-08-12T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T09:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175719"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T09:54:28","slug":"microsoft-extends-windows-7-8-1-support-for-intel-skylake-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/175719-microsoft-extends-windows-7-8-1-support-for-intel-skylake-devices.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft extends Windows 7, 8.1 support for Intel Skylake devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/business\/2016\/08\/11\/updates-to-silicon-support-policy-for-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft is<\/strong><\/a> extending Windows 7 and 8.1 support for\u00a0Intel Skylake-based devices.<\/p>\n<p>The company said\u00a0Skylake-based Windows 7 and 8.1 devices will receive extended support until:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows 7<\/strong> &#8211; 14 January 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows 8.1<\/strong> &#8211; 10 January 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The previous cut-off dates were\u00a0set for July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;6th Gen Intel Core devices on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be supported with all applicable security updates until the end of support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Future silicon platforms including Intel\u2019s upcoming 7th Gen Intel Core (Kaby Lake) processor family and AMD\u2019s 7th generation processors (Bristol Ridge) will only be supported on Windows 10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175395-windows-10-default-pdf-reader-put-users-at-risk.html\">Windows 10 default PDF reader put users at risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175269-do-not-install-windows-10-anniversary-edition-update-university-of-cape-town.html\">Do not install Windows 10 Anniversary Edition update: University of Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is extending Windows 7 and 8.1 support for Intel Skylake-based devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[36,123,12505],"class_list":["post-175719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175723,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719\/revisions\/175723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}