Well that didn’t take long. Mere hours after announcing Windows 11’s October 5 release date, the company is booting Windows Insider preview PCs with unsupported hardware out of Windows 11 testing. The ...

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I read the Ars article from October, and a few other sites, and still a bit unclear on running W11 on older hardware. My wife's laptop is a Dell XPS with a 6th gen i5. No TPM 2.0. For her needs it is ...

Attempting to upgrade a PC to Windows 11 when the system doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for any reasons elicits an ominous warning message foreboding potential doom and destruction. That ...

Despite multiple scary warnings, Microsoft has rolled out the October 12 update to unsupported PCs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

While it's been largely a smooth ride so far, we can't ignore Microsoft's warnings entirely. Unsupported hardware still ...

Microsoft isn't just reserving watermarks for unactivated or bootlegged Windows copies. The Verge has learned that the most recent Windows 11 Release Preview build (22000.588) applies a watermark to ...

Affected PCs weren’t able to upgrade this time, but it’s the second in less than a year that Microsoft has made this mistake. Affected PCs weren’t able to upgrade this time, but it’s the second in ...

An upcoming version of Windows 11 will nag anyone who circumvented the hardware requirements with an "unsupported" watermark on the desktop. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is currently experimenting with two new methods to warn ...

At my work if you want to buy your own hardware or software instead of using what we provide AND want us to support it we (IT) have to approve it. If we don't approve it you are still welcome to spend ...