Developer lifts Windows 7's update blockade with unsanctioned patch

An anonymous developer has published a patch that negates Microsoft's barring of security updates from Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs equipped with the very newest processors.The developer, identified as "Zeffy," posted the patch and accompanying documentation on GitHub, the code repository.[ Related: Fix Windows 10 problems with these free Microsoft tools ]"I was inspired to look into these new rollup updates that Microsoft released on March 16 [after reading about the processor-related blocking of Wind