> Nobody got fired for buying Intel!
Back in the day this was said all the time at the office. Things change!
Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
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Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
#22Now if I was an AMD exec I'd suddenly announce that "all versions of all our drivers for all hardware on all platforms will be available forever".
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
My uneducated guess would be to make reverse engineering exploits from patches harder.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me since we're talking about EOL software that won't receive patches in the first place. I can't think of any good reason to get rid of that besides maybe "we're revamping the website and can't be bothered to port that bit".
Drive sales of hardware. If you can't get drivers you have to purchase something you can get drivers for.
Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
#24Now if I was an AMD exec I'd suddenly announce that "all versions of all our drivers for all hardware on all platforms will be available forever".
Great, my Brazos APU would welcome getting their OpenGL and video hardware decoding capabilities back to the level of fglrx.
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#25Why are they doing this?
So you buy new hardware.
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#26This will lead to people downloading potentially infected drivers from unofficial sites.
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#27What the NUC?
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#28I will admit that I do not understand that move; especially so if it is a cost cutting measure.
Then again I remember arguing with a VP that storage is cheap and email size limits are draconian enough already. She was not pleased.
Maybe it is really just about the budget.
Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
#29I almost wonder if archive.org could get involved here, as these sorts of things (specifically including graphics drivers) will be a prerequisite for some forms of digital preservation and retrocomputing.
See https://www.archiveteam.org - they've done such things before, and they do post their work to the IA. And yes, this is something where they should be involved.
This is old news. We already grabbed it all, when it was first announced.
Re: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
#30This will lead to people downloading potentially infected drivers from unofficial sites.
Unfortunately, I think that's their true intent...
But "potentially infected" is mostly paranoia scaremongering, unless you deliberately go for the ad-encrusted huge-flashing-download-buttons sites(and probably even those are OK) --- there's plenty of other community-based sites (like the one linked here) which I've used before for various software, and I'd say a lot of times I trust the community even more than "official" sources. Especially when the latter has commercial interests to uphold.