All those warnings turned out to be exaggerated ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your PC does not meet the new system requirements set by Microsoft but you badly want to upgrade to Windows 11 because your current Windows OS is already slow. It's ...

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 ...

In a surprising reversal, Microsoft has published new guidelines for installing Windows 11 on devices that do not meet the operating system's minimum requirements. This decision came less than a week ...

Windows 11 is going to be a major upgrade. But before you can get there, Microsoft wants you to have the necessary hardware. The company published a blog post officially detailing the system ...