Microsoft’s strict Windows 11 requirements have turned a routine upgrade into a referendum on who deserves modern software.

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 ...

Thankfully, I can put off upgrading for a few more years.

Microsoft has updated its support documentation to remove instructions for bypassing Windows 11's hardware requirements, as reported by Windows Latest. Windows 11 has stricter hardware requirements ...

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 ...

Windows 11 has been out for quite a while, and it had some pretty high demands if you want to install it. Avoiding them might ...

There's something wrong with your machine or setup then, because h.264 is trivial for Sandy Bridge or later CPUs to decode in software, even disregarding Quick Sync. A Haswell CPU can decode HD AV1 ...

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 ...

A support document showing users how to install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs was deleted sometime in the past two months. Its disappearance, noticed by Neowin, echoes Microsoft’s recent “year of the ...

A few days after the announcement of “Recall” for Windows 11, a developer demonstrated that it can run on unsupported CPUs. Currently, “Recall” is designed to work on so-called Copilot+ PCs. However, ...

It is safe to assume that Microsoft wants people to upgrade to Windows 11 and it explained via a recent advertisement why and how 11 is a great OS. The latest market share numbers by Statcounter show ...