Business users alarmed by Microsoft’s recent announcement that new chips will not run on Windows 7 PCs need not fret. More than 100 business PCs coming with Intel’s new “Skylake” Core vPro processors will run Windows 7, though the chips are tuned for Windows 10.

Microsoft last week said PCs with certain Intel Skylake and next-generation “Kaby Lake” chips would support only Windows 10. The goal was to push enterprises to upgrade their PCs to the new OS. However, Microsoft is releasing a list of Skylake PCs that support Windows 7.

The new “6th-generation” vPro chips, announced on Tuesday, have features that let system administrators remotely manage and secure PCs. Some features in the new chips — such as chip-level storage of biometric authentication data — will work only with Windows 10.

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