No Windows 10 Updates for Intel Atom-powered PCs

If you owned an Intel Atom Clover Trail PC during the Windows 8 era, you know that when Windows 10 was first getting set to roll out, Microsoft offered a free Windows 10 update for those machines to keep users on the latest version of the OS. Recently if you tried to grab the latest Windows 10 Creators Update for a PC running the Atom Clover Trail CPU, you know that the update wouldn’t work on those machines. Word is that compatible drivers are keeping owners of those machines form updating.

Microsoft has now stepped up and confirmed that it no longer supports Intel Atom Clover Trail processors in the latest Windows 10 updates reports The Verge. Before you get angry at Microsoft, from what the software giant is saying the issue is that Intel has stopped supporting these processors.

A Microsoft spokesperson said, “They require additional hardware support to provide the best possible experience when updating to the latest Windows 10 feature update, the Windows 10 Creators Update. However, these systems are no longer supported by Intel (End of Interactive Support), and without the necessary driver support, they may be incapable of moving to the Windows 10 Creators Update without a potential performance impact.”

To remedy this issue as much as possible, Microsoft has agreed to offer Clover Trail devices the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and to provide security updates to those devices on that update until January of 2023. That is the same date that the original Windows 8.1 extended support period ended on. That does mean that while security updates will be offered for those machines, no new Windows 10 features will be offered.