Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 11 build 22621 to Windows Insiders enrolled in the Release Preview Channel, marking another step towards general availability of Windows 11 22H2 which is scheduled for release sometime later this year. However, it seems from reports on Reddit, that users on unsupported hardware are being offered the upgrade as well, even those on Windows 10.
The wrong bit was flipped.
It’s still early on. It’s not too late for Microsoft to ensure Windows 11 isn’t worst release of all time. We’ll see.
I’ll wait till Windows 12, probably.
Mostly on XFCE / Arch anyway.
Dedoimedo did write about Windows 11:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-dev-review.html
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-moving-away.html
They’ve already admitted they made it by mistake. The requirements stand.
The requirements are completely arbitrary. It’s possible to install and run Windows 11 on any PC capable of running Windows 10, which takes it all the way back to Core2 era machines. The TPM requirement can be worked around, and the CPU requirement is wholly artificial. It’s a farce.
You don’t understand what the requirements mean, do you?
Microsoft guarantees Windows 11 to work only with the officially supported CPUs and GPUs. You’re free to run it on Pentium 4 if you want but you can’t hold Microsoft responsible if the OS is completely unusable on your hardware.
People, having drunk open source KoolAid, sometimes speak absolute bullcrap with confidence. It never occurs to them they are not thinking through. Those Core 2 machines with ages old AGP videocards will work as slow as molasses – if that “works” for you, fine.
Does that mean I will still get windows updates on unsupported hardware if I install windows 11 now? I could care less about Microsoft guarantees, my concern was OS installs missing security updates compromising my network. My understanding was you could install the OS but not get updates, I’d be happy to learn I am wrong.
@Artem S. Tashkinov
That is incorrect. They literally have a hardware check when you try to install it and it blocks installation if the hardware is not on the approved list. I have a tablet that 100% should work fine on Windows 11, but is blocked by having a ‘U’ variant of one of the Intel CPUs that is supported.
Now I’m sure I could figure out the work around, but why bother, Windows 11 is garbage.
Same here, my XPS15 is well and truly modern enough for Win11 but it’s not compliant. Couldn’t care less either way.
I do, which is why I say they are arbitrary. If they were truly hard requirements it would be impossible to install on hardware that didn’t meet them; there wouldn’t be any workarounds.
That’s not in contention, that’s spelled out by them. If you want vendor support, run supported hardware, it’s not a difficult concept. I spoke of what’s possible, not what’s officially supported.
[i]Ad hominem[/i] attacks do nothing to further your point and only serve to make you appear even less credible. Be better.
Apart from some niche industrial hardware, there literally aren’t any Core2 machines with AGP slots. PCIe predates Core2, and while there were a few socket 775 boards with AGP slots, they were actually bridged internally to PCIe lanes and only certain AGP cards were compatible, and generally only supported up to Core Duo, not Core2. Not to mention Windows 10 dropped AGP support (including those PCIe bridged version) many years ago; Windows 11 never supported it in the first place.
If you’re going to make up something to prove a point, did you have a point to prove in the first place?
Mandating TPM 2.0 support for being able to run Windows 11 should be illegal. Such things needs to be optional. Hopefully regulators will do their job.
@Geck it’s not even that! I was blocked for an install because I had a CPU that wasn’t on the list, and it’s the equivalent of an i7 or something.
I’m still not convinced I would choose Win 11 for either of my Core i5 6th gen computers (1 desktop, 1 laptop).