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Originally Posted by Quoth
There are really no "unsupported CPUs" except 32 bit. It's about the TPM, not which 64 bit CPU.
But the users can manually update them. Also you don't HAVE to use the nearly pointless TPM HW, which is why only some PCs will get automatic (=forced) updates. Win11 seems to be making mistakes of win8.x and removing even more user choice/configuration than Win10, which (esp Home Edition) is the worst for GUI and user configuration since Win 3.0 on Hercules.
On Vista you could turn off the junk. With Win ME on a new computer you could run Win98SE instead, if it was needed for games etc (assuming it wasn't for business which should NEVER have run Win9x, only NT 4.0 and then Win2K after Win3.x).
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They have a literal list of supported CPUs for Windows 11. They have said recently they won't block people from installing it from an ISO on unsupported hardware but you risk getting no support. They also said they won't upgrade people that don't have supported hardware so it's not going to be like the Windows 10 upgrade where a bunch of systems get upgraded in the middle of the night against the wishs of the owners.
It's about more than the TPM. If just the TPM or TPM 2.0 was the requirement the list of supported CPUs would be much bigger and include CPUs like those based on AMD Zen 1.
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-in...lth-check-app/