Microsoft does not keep its promise and abandons the pentium iii

Microsoft promised to offer Windows 7 support to older Pentium processors until 2020, but it appears that they are ultimately not going to deliver on their promise based on new data discovered.

Microsoft won't fix Windows 7 issues with Pentium IIIs

Computerworld has accessed some retroactive documentation from Windows 7 that says users won't get any more security patches if the processor doesn't run Streaming Single Instructions Multiple Data (SIMD) Extensions 2. The last processors that are not compatible with these instructions are the Pentium III, it has rained a lot since then.

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It all started in March with update KB 4088875 for Windows 7, which included a warning about SSE2 issues. Microsoft was supposed to be working on an update to fix the problem, something that never happened. Later, it was recommended to update the machines with a processor that supports SSE2 or to virtualize those machines.

All this means that Microsoft will not fix the problem, in fact they have been completely unlinked. It is understood that there is no interest in maintaining support for a processor that was sold in 2002, but the point is that a promise was made, and then it has been broken without giving any explanation, something very inelegant on the part of from a company like Microsoft.

The Pentium IIIs were excellent processors, quite the opposite of their successors, the Pentium 4s, which proved to be a failure and led to the golden age of AMD, in which its Athlon 64s were superior to Intel processors. Fortunately for Intel, things started to go much better since the launch of the Core 2 Duo in 2006. How about Microsoft's decision not to deliver on its promise?

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