A Thursday report warns Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system will not support hybrid dual-graphics systems currently on the market from NVIDIA and AMD. The news came after a review of Microsoft’s Guidelines for Graphics in Windows 7 document released on Wednesday, which read Windows 7 will not offer native support for the systems, listing unstable and poor user experience as reasons for the exclusion. The software make added it would ’strongly discourage system manufacturers from shipping such systems’ and noted these systems would require a reboot to switch between GPUs.

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