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Re:User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Upda... by sandworm101 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:38PM (#14150481)
This is no patch. This is a hack. This is the bypassing of a DRM protocol, an undoing of an antifeature and part of the ongoing war. I await the MS counterattack.
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Re:User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Upda... by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:58PM (#14152873)
Why would MS bother? Like a Hackintosh, it's an unsupported configuration of the OS. If anything breaks, you're totally on your own.
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