Confirmed: Windows 10 may cut off devices with older CPUs
by MARK HACHMAN
Sep 04, 2017
3 minutes
No Windows 10 Creators Update for you, Microsoft says—at least, not if you happen to be the unlucky owner of certain older Atom-based Windows devices, and other aging models in the future. After stories arose of failed attempts to upgrade such hardware to the Creators Update, Microsoft confirmed recently that any hardware device that falls out of the manufacturer’s support cycle may be ineligible for future Windows 10 updates.
In the case of the four —part of the Cloverview platform—that have fallen into Intel’s End of Interactive Support phase, they will be ineligible
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