The news has come to us from the Microsoft blog, which indicates that «Going forward, as they are introduced newer generations of silicon, these will require the latest Windows platform at that time to be supported. […] Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform for Intel's Kaby Lake, Qualcomm 8996 and AMD Bristol Ridge silicon. ".
Windows 7 and Windows 8 will continue to be supported by MicrosoftThis is not what this Microsoft blog post refers to, the reality is even worse, and it implies that to buy a new microprocessor you must update yes or yes to Windows 10 or the next Windows they launch for that hardware to support to the operating system. So the new chips from Intel, Qualcomm and AMD, I do not know if any more will join, they will not support previous versions of Windows to force you to have Windows 10.
To have a Windows 7 or 8, you will have to stay with the older hardware, otherwise, in the new generations of microprocessors it will not be supported. This is a new burden that Microsoft imposes itself to force people to follow increasingly absurd rules and in order to gain market share with its Windows 10, that OS we are talking about. And Intel's Skylake will be the first to stop supporting past Windows to focus only on Windows 10.
In my opinion, this not the fault of AMD, Intel or Qualcomm, since they do not gain much from this movement, on the contrary, they can be harmed by a drop in sales if users want to maintain previous Windows platforms. Therefore, it leads me to think that Microsoft has made some kind of agreement ($) with them to force them to take this measure and thus boost Windows 10 as it may. Microsoft's latest moves bring it closer to the world of open source, but this honestly reminds me more of the measures taken by Apple and its planned obsolescence ...