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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Windows 11 incompatibility with 5 year old computers was such a strange move for company that should be trying encourage people to upgrade to their latest platform.

Sorry, my 7700K PC from 2017 doesn't meet your requirements. Oh well... guess it's stuck with Windows 10. Shame. /s

Made even more strange by how long computers last nowadays with a solid SSD. My Gen 3 and Gen 4 i7 machines from about 2012-2014 still run W10 perfectly smooth outside of playing the latest games.

Surprises me they don't have a "Windows 11 Lite" or something to that effect. A Windows 11 without the security/TPM requirement.
gpt
The CPU stuff was because of Intel and AMD not wanting to certify them had nothing to do with Microsoft, TPM is all on MS though.

You can install windows 11 on a new machine and then just take the drive out and put it in the old machine and it boots up fine. I'm sure the EU will come down on them like a ton of bricks soon as its clear it works just fine on older hardware.