![]() ![]() ![]() Of course Microsoft's reasoning for this is to try to force the widespread adoption of Windows 10 to happen sooner rather than being dragged out the way that XP was, which lingered far longer than any other Windows version and did pose major compatibility challenges for software and hardware vendors to continue to support it as it lacked most of the modern APIs available in later operating systems since Windows Vista. In fact, this was proven by the fact that just last year Intel released a new 7th/8th generation platform which included support for Windows 7, including the USB 3.0 drivers, SATA drivers and chipset drivers which for the longest time were not available for the older operating system (though they still never released compatible drivers for their latest integrated graphics built into their modern CPUs, although this point is moot as long as the system has a discrete graphics solution from AMD or NVIDIA installed as both vendors still fully support Windows 7 for all of their current graphics products). Sadly, not all vendors see things this way and have artificially and prematurely dropped support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 (even though 8.1 is still officially supported for security updates until 2023 and only stopped receiving feature updates last year) in some of their products, particularly hardware vendors like Intel and AMD, who were encouraged by Microsoft to stop providing drivers and support for Windows 7 and other pre-10 builds of Windows for their latest products/hardware even though there is literally no difference between the drivers and functions used between the two operating systems (again, save for those which involve new capabilities/features that don't apply to 7 and therefore simply aren't used in that OS) with the goal being to force any system using modern hardware to only be compatible with Windows 10. I don't have any official info, however I will say that I know for a fact that many aspects that would impact long term support for 7, including native driver functions, APIs and other mechanisms used for both hardware and software products, including Malwarebytes, are virtually identical between Windows 7 and Windows 10 with the exception of new functions which have been added in later Windows versions (such as Early Launch Antimalware, aka ELAM which is a component of Secure Boot first implemented in Windows 8), however it has been and should continue to be a simple matter to implement the same functionality/features across operating systems, including Windows 7, save for those newer functions that don't apply to 7 (and therefore do not impact continued compatibility with Windows 7). Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
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