{"id":265847,"date":"2018-06-25T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265847"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:56:31","slug":"microsoft-drops-windows-7-support-for-cpus-without-sse2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/265847-microsoft-drops-windows-7-support-for-cpus-without-sse2.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft drops Windows 7 support for CPUs without SSE2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has dropped support for several older processors in Windows 7 after reportedly giving up on resolving a problem listed as a &#8220;known issue,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-unexpectedly-drops-windows-7-support-for-some-ancient-cpus\/\">ZDNet reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4088875\/windows-7-update-kb4088875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2018 security update<\/a><\/strong> for Windows 7 listed a known issue where a &#8220;Stop&#8221; error will occur on PCs that don&#8217;t support Streaming Single Instructions Multiple Data Extensions 2 (SSE2).<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that SSE2 was introduced in August 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Microsoft indicated in the &#8220;workaround&#8221; column of the known issue that\u00a0it was working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the June security update, the text has been changed to read as follows: &#8220;Upgrade your machines with a processor that supports SSE2 or virtualize those machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/247473-windows-10-overtakes-windows-7.html\">Windows 10 overtakes Windows 7<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has dropped support for several older processors in Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[123,51901,5214],"class_list":["post-265847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-microsoft","tag-sse2","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265847"}],"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=265847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265881,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265847\/revisions\/265881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}