Geesh; you’d think the CIA is paying Microsoft for every PC on Windows 10.
Er,.... wait...
The OS everyone seems to love to hate is yet again NOT the problem here. Intel made the decision to cease driver development for platforms older than Windows 10. Kaby Lake, and its predecessor Skylake, were designed around UEFI for more security. Due to the swiss cheese nature of the pre-Windows 10 kernel, Intel decided to do away with legacy support.
Microsoft’s been leading the charge to force adoption of newer platforms, because legacy hardware support is becoming an increasing problem for OS packaging. You all bitch about Microsoft’s “bloat,” and when they do something about it, everyone’s in a damn tizzy about “Microsoft can have my Windows XX when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!” Yet, if you go talk to folks like Swordmaker on the Mac side, how many of them are trying to work on an old G5 Mac platform?
If you want to run legacy hardware, go ahead over to Linux. Microsoft is trying to innovate and be one of the safest operating environments around, but everyone complains when they remove the unsafe components.
Did my Win7 updates this morning, and everything is fine.