Lenovo demands Microsoft extend Skylake Windows 7 support
As part of its Windows 10 push, Microsoft declared it will end support for Windows 7 and 8.1 on Skylake processors, on July 17, 2017, three years before the official end of support for Windows 7. This ruffled a few feathers when it was first announced, and now it's drawn the ire of Microsoft's biggest OEM.
The Chinese hardware giant – made so in part because it bought IBM's PC business – has expressed concern that not everyone wants Windows 10, and it has said it wants extended support for Skylake-based systems.
The UK site Channelnomics.com quotes Adrienne Mueller, North America ThinkPad sales enablement and product manager at Lenovo, on a recent conference call with business partners as saying that several of its customers have not thought about transition to Windows 10 yet. The call was supposed to be a private one but apparently the Channelnomics reporter got on. It also explains Mueller's candor.
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