Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged
Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged
Can they still be considered "minimum requirements" if they are easily circumvented?
Has "official" M$ support ever done anything useful for home users? Error documentation might as well be nonexistent, support forums are filled with copy/paste uselessness that more than ever come from "independent advisors" rather than M$ themselves. So really, what are people losing out on?
How gracious of them
My sides! That crap is losing ground to older versions, and now they're lowering the requirements!
Hey, when is Windows going to stop working if your keyboard doesn't have a Microsoft® approved Copilot® keyboard? It would be damn great!
apt-get moofor you guys.EDIT: why are yall downvoting this and the_crotch's comments? Serious question.
Right? Where does Microsoft get off adding minimum hardware requirements to windows 11 for the first time ever?
The laughable part is the hardware list keeps slipping, my 2017 HP workstation said it was not supported due to CPU, now it recently changes to get ready for W11. Like all of a sudden when they see no one is adopting 11 as fast as they want they go and change requirements.
Someone noticed users weren't gonna shell out for new kit
Didn’t they recently say that it was technically impossible or something?
I expected something like this to happen. There was no way they were going to be allowed to just make so many computers insecure.
But I’m guessing the windows experience is going to intentionally be made extra bad on those “old” computers.
- you're going to get a worse experience in win11 compared to win10 (extra ads and extra copilot)
- your win10 pc will lose M$ support on October 2025
- if you update to win11 today with a non TPU enabled chipset, you'll lose M$ support today
Just remind me again why I should upgrade to win11?
Are they not pushing updates out for Windows 11 on machines without TPM 2.0? If they are then it's still "supported" lol.
Edit: After finding the actual post from Microsoft, yes, they're saying they may not continue to provide patches for this. Time will tell. I believe they'd rather have more people using Windows 11 than Windows 10 and if many people with legacy BIOS systems upgrade to Windows 11 they may continue to support them. Just like the full screen ads they pushed to get people to upgrade hardware, I think this messaging is moreso meant to scare people to upgrade hardware, but I believe the data they're gonna suck out of these older systems on Windows 11 is likely more valuable to them than the cost of supporting BIOS.
The following disclaimer applies if Windows 11 is installed on a device that doesn't meet the minimum system requirements:
This PC doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for running Windows 11 - these requirements help ensure a more reliable and higher quality experience. Installing Windows 11 on this PC is not recommended and may result in compatibility issues. If you proceed with installing Windows 11, your PC will no longer be supported and won't be entitled to receive updates. Damages to your PC due to lack of compatibility aren't covered under the manufacturer warranty. By selecting Accept, you are acknowledging that you read and understand this statement.
That's all it takes to keep people bound to that OS. Most will never install linux
Sad but true.
And I'm saying it as a 30+ years daily user of linux. Which also has had a lot of interactions with end users.
If there's one thing that people hate, it's change. They hate it when their version of windows changes, so changing for an entirely different system is right out. Even though the differences are trivial to the tech crowd.
I FUCKING CALLED IT. The irony is that if they'd dropped the requirement a year or so sooner then I would've upgraded to Windows 11 and probably not be planning on my next computer being Linux.
Who gives a shit?