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When Microsoft says "your CPU needs to be this high in order to run Windows 11", perhaps listen to them eh?

FreshStart 3y ago
Wtf.. Come on its just ms getting kickbacks for deprecating hardware.
tom_ 3y ago
There's a Microsoft note about this issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-22h2#microsoft-received-reports-about-an--unsupported-processor--error https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/sta... The list of affected operating systems supposedly includes Windows 10, version 22H2.
TillE 3y ago
It would be trivial for Microsoft to strictly enforce their CPU "requirements" on install. They've chosen not to. The workaround for that isn't some weird hack, it's an explicit registry value that they made.
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  I don't think end users are supposed to change registry values (even IT admins aren't, as they can use GPO). That qualifies it as a 'weird hack' in my book.
rstat1 3y ago
If their supported CPU list wasn't completely arbitrary BS, then you might be on something here. But it isn't There are CPUs that have no problem running the OS that are for no discernible reason "not supported". And I'm not talking about old crap like Pentium 4s or something. I'm talking about ones that are barely 5yrs old.
- bitwize 3y ago
  Microsoft is moving to a model of "signed software from power on to application level" for Windows. The supported CPUs have the TPM features necessary to support this transition. Presumably, for Windows 12, remote attestation capability (Pluton) will be required.
  - ndriscoll 3y ago
    Right and for the home user, there is exactly zero benefit from this. There is no reason someone should have to go buy a new computer to replace one that's only 5 years old. A world where local accounts are an enterprise feature and hardware attestation is a home feature is completely backwards.
  - rstat1 3y ago
    >> moving to a model of "signed software from power on to application level" for Windows. This already a thing with Windows 10 in S Mode. So definitely not that. There are quite a few CPUs that implement the necessary TPM crap and aren't supported. So not that. There are several new CPU features they want, but half or 3/4s of the CPUs on the supported list don't have them. So not that either. Only valid reason left is that's arbitrary and not based on anything logical.
hulitu 3y ago
> "your CPU needs to be this high in order to run Windows 11" We besides the user, even the CPU has to be on drugs to run Windows 11, something is teribly wrong with this world. /s

Wtf.. Come on its just ms getting kickbacks for deprecating hardware.

tom_ 3y ago

There's a Microsoft note about this issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-22h2#microsoft-received-reports-about-an--unsupported-processor--error https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/sta... The list of affected operating systems supposedly includes Windows 10, version 22H2.

TillE 3y ago

It would be trivial for Microsoft to strictly enforce their CPU "requirements" on install. They've chosen not to. The workaround for that isn't some weird hack, it's an explicit registry value that they made.

Tijdreiziger 3y ago
I don't think end users are supposed to change registry values (even IT admins aren't, as they can use GPO). That qualifies it as a 'weird hack' in my book.

rstat1 3y ago

If their supported CPU list wasn't completely arbitrary BS, then you might be on something here. But it isn't There are CPUs that have no problem running the OS that are for no discernible reason "not supported". And I'm not talking about old crap like Pentium 4s or something. I'm talking about ones that are barely 5yrs old.

bitwize 3y ago
Microsoft is moving to a model of "signed software from power on to application level" for Windows. The supported CPUs have the TPM features necessary to support this transition. Presumably, for Windows 12, remote attestation capability (Pluton) will be required.
- ndriscoll 3y ago
  Right and for the home user, there is exactly zero benefit from this. There is no reason someone should have to go buy a new computer to replace one that's only 5 years old. A world where local accounts are an enterprise feature and hardware attestation is a home feature is completely backwards.
- rstat1 3y ago
  >> moving to a model of "signed software from power on to application level" for Windows. This already a thing with Windows 10 in S Mode. So definitely not that. There are quite a few CPUs that implement the necessary TPM crap and aren't supported. So not that. There are several new CPU features they want, but half or 3/4s of the CPUs on the supported list don't have them. So not that either. Only valid reason left is that's arbitrary and not based on anything logical.

hulitu 3y ago

> "your CPU needs to be this high in order to run Windows 11" We besides the user, even the CPU has to be on drugs to run Windows 11, something is teribly wrong with this world. /s