*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***

mrk said:
The hard/soft floors mentioned earlier may be a way out of all this though too, I think people around the net are too focused on this TPM req and CPU support list that this is being missed left right and centre. MS page says as long as hard limits are met, then CPU generation and TPM2.0 not being met (soft floors) will merely prompt a warning advising not to upgrade which will be something worded about security we all know... and will ignore.

If that's the case then I will simply upgrade ignoring the warning and then slowly upgrade mobo and CPU like I have always done. I will need to convert my SSD to GPT though but that conversion tool can do that without any fuss if Windows 11 installer doesn't do that as part of the upgrade anyway. I don't see how GPT is a hard limit though since secure boot/TPM is a soft limit so the need for GPT is a non issue.
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Windows Update has a habit of simply ignoring your PC until MS bizarre reqts are met so were out of luck that way. But with a ISO install then maybe its possible to get W11 if the checks are then only advisory.

The CPU reqt is pretty firm right now - I just assumed the 6700K would be OK until I looked at the list of supported CPUs and theres nothing older than i7-8xxx.

Its worth going ahead with GPT anyway while we wait for MS to change their minds about this.
 
 
 
Would have thought MS of all people after their Xbox One announcement know how first impressions can completely destroy them, they would have learned, but no, no, they clearly have the stupid still leading them in PR department.
 
You guys are reading way too much into the supported CPU lists:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/windows-processor-requirements

Check the later windows 10 lists on that page (e.g. 21H1) - they don't list older hardware e.g anything older than Skylake but we know older chips still work



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These lists DO NOT list anything older than SKYLAKE 6 Series chips, even for older versions of Windows (7, 8, all releases of 10). Therefore not sure you can read anything into them
 
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malachi said:
They have plenty of time to remove this requirement.

They probably come up and say "oh sorry, it was a bug."
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They do but why have a release announcement / launch event when you've not tested things such as the health checker. It's rather amateurish like a start up company mistake which MS should know better by now.
 
Armageus said:
You guys are reading way too much into the supported CPU lists:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/windows-processor-requirements

Check the later windows 10 lists on that page (e.g. 21H1) - they don't list older hardware e.g anything older than Skylake but we know older chips still woek
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It appears that the health checker is validating whether you have one of those CPUs though. So you're either not going to be offered the upgrade through WU or if the installer such as the media creation tool does the same validation then people are stuck.
 
Its took me this long to put up with the win 10 start menu from 7........ putting in the middle so it looks like a crap mac is a bigger issue :)
 
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