Windows 7 and 8.1 won’t update if you install the latest Intel and AMD chips

If you rocking a Kaby Lake or Ryzen chip in your PC, it’s probably time to upgrade to Windows 10.

Microsoft will no longer push updates to your PC if you are running Windows 7 or 8.1 with the latest chips from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm (as Ars Technica first reported). The company had announced that it would pull the plug on updating those legacy operating systems for modern CPUs, and it explained that this is because the chip manufacturers designed their silicon specifically for Windows 10. This doesn’t mean that the updates wouldn’t work — they likely would, but Microsoft won’t even give you the option to install them.