Intel To Remove Old Drivers and BIOS Updates From Its Site

'By Friday this week, Intel plans to remove old drivers and BIOS
updates from its official website. From a report:

"This download, BIOS Update [BLH6710H.86A] 0163, will no longer be
available after November 22, 2019 and will not be supported with any
additional functional, security, or other updates," reads a message
posted to the download page of one of the impacted components. "Intel
recommends that users of BIOS Update [BLH6710H.86A] 0163 uninstall
and/or discontinue use as soon as possible," the message continues.
The downloads are drivers and BIOS updates for Intel desktop
components and motherboards the company released in the 90s and
early-to-mid 2000s. Downloads for hundreds of components are believed
to have been impacted, from motherboards to NIC cards and graphics
cards. Most of the drivers are for Windows versions like 98, ME, XP,
and older Windows Server editions -- old Windows OS versions that have
themselves reached end-of-life (EOL) All components and motherboards
reached (EOL) years ago, and Intel stopped delivering firmware updates
as a result. Its website was merely hosting the older files for
convenience.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/11/18/1646210

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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