So far it doesn’t. But Windows 11 24H2 now requires support for the POPCNT instruction and otherwise won’t boot, which excludes some older CPUs. Conceivably fut

So far it doesn’t. But Windows 11 24H2 now requires support for the POPCNT instruction and otherwise won’t boot, which excludes some older CPUs. Conceivably future Windows 11 updates will add further hard requirements like that.