Microsoft engineers won’t be happy this month, thanks to the community-minded actions of a Github user named Zeffy. Not content with the way that Redmond was updating its software, he decided to patch Microsoft’s patch.
Zeffy is irritated with Microsoft’s decision to stop updating Windows 7 and 8.1 on newer CPUs. The company, which worked hard to push users to upgrade to Windows 10, announced in January last year that it would not update versions of these older operating systems running on seventh-generation processors (that’s Kaby Lake silicon from Intel, and Bristol Ridge silicon from AMD).
