Does Skylake-X Officially Support Windows 7?

[WLaur]

Does Skylake-X officially support Windows 7? Specifically, will Intel provide official drivers for Windows 7 for Skylake-X and the X299 chipset and will Microsoft provide continued security update support for Windows 7 systems running Skylake-X? Intel and Microsoft do not support Windows 7 on Kaby Lake, but do on Skylake, and it's unclear where Skylake-X lands. Someone else asked this question last year, but the question was closed as unknown at the time. Hopefully now that we're days away from release we can get a definitive answer.

I need to build a system that multiboots Windows 7 and Windows 10, so that will be Skylake-X based if Windows 7 is still supported otherwise I'll have to consider between Skylake and Broadwell-E.

[idata]

Hello CommanderData,

Please let me double check on this matter.

Regards,

Amy C.

[Ronny_G_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hello CommanderData,

Please refer to the following article from Microsoft*. Windows* 7 is already "end of support" since 2015.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

Skylake-X has not been validated with Windows 7. Intel support for this integration is very limited.

Regards,

Ronny G