The end of Windows 7 is near: SoCs older than Pentium IV may no longer be compatible with new updates

Time passes for everyone and in the world of electronics this maxim is raised to the nth power. No matter how good a product may seem, there is no doubt that will sooner or later go to a better life when it is replaced by a better one. In _hardware_ and _software_ this is our daily bread.

Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7… versions of the Redmond operating system that have been improving to the previous one (if , we have skipped Vista). And when with Windows 7 it seemed that they had hit the key, Windows 8 Windows 10 arrived to improve the present.A succession of versions that causes the previous ones to be abandoned. There is no longer support for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 will end on January 14, 2020. A date that seems to have been brought forward on some computers.

We won't have to wait for 2020

ComputerWorld announced the reason for this with data according to which Windows 7 could no longer receive support in the form of updates on computers that have some families of processors that are already old. A discontinuation of support due to compatibility with the updates released for the operating system.

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The reason is that one of the released updates caused an error with the following text: A stop error occurs on computers that do not support Streaming Single Instructions Multiple Data ( SIMD) Extensions 2 (SSE2)This message caused from the first moment that from Redmond they will notify through another message that they would launch an update to correct this failure. That was almost three months ago."

It was already in the month of June when that message was updated, being more forceful and leaving no room for doubt. After the last update launched in Windows 7, the following message appeared on some computers: “Upgrade your computers to a processor that supports SSE2 or virtualize these machines"An issue that is caused by the system adopting an instruction set first used in Intel's Pentium 4s that leaves out earlier Intel models.

These are models that have an Intel Pentium III processor or earlier and are still using Windows 7 .These could be affected by this end of support and stop receiving basic security updates, almost two years before support officially ends.

When using Windows 10 on our test computer, this error message did not appear If in your case you have a computer that include an older processor and you use Windows 7 you can leave us in the comments if you have already seen this message on the screen.

Source | ComputerWorld In Xataka Windows | Do you miss working with Windows 7? This concept adapts it so that we can imagine how it might look in the current era