What's With Windows 11 System Requirements

Gates - "Guys, new rule, you can't wipe your butt without a Microsoft account!"

It made for wacky New Years Eve parties!

I have a, by now, ten year old off lease machine. I saw the requirements for windows 11 and in spite of being in the middle of recovering from retina surgery thus having screwy vision? Instant.

'Fuck this' Installed linux mint after a few years away from linux.

Now with an RX550 and an intel wifi card? Everything 'just works' For now it does what i want and. Well. I know i'm going to need to change hte clock battery at some point and redo the thermal grease but 'why contribute t othe e-waste pile if I'm getting use out of this thing?'

Interesting take made me think of your view wow. 😊😌

Sounds like MS and I have all my old PC's setup to run ubuntu

It will be...interesting to see how things play out after 2025. I have an i7 4790 that I really don't see myself needing to replace before then. I used to have an old Pentium 4 media machine hooked up to my tv, and after XP support ended I ran updates for a server/pos version of XP for a couple years. I wonder if there might end up being similar backdoor solutions to stay with Windows 10.

Those old systems perform fine for daily usage for example old i7 outperforms a new i3 however Microsoft and hardware companies decided to force people to spend money it’s just money milking and it’s disgusting because it only prove that they are out of ideas. Just Repeating technology in a new design

The reason, money. Make people buy new PC's and make money on Windows licenses.

"Last version" Hard to understand?

We are ramping up for the beast and his image. AI, crypto currency, the nutso political devide, bill gates' creepy actions, covid, dr. Fauci, all that stuff and more. We are in the endgame now.

My windows 10 computer is 8 years old and I had few years ago upgraded video card, battery, and hard drive to SD. It still more then fills my need and I will install Linux instead of buy an expensive computer. Those of us who use just the basic features of Windows 10 will probably switch to Linux too.

I switched to Mac and IPad.

My belief is that the minimum CPU requirement is to avoid older designs which are unpatchable against the Spectre and Meltdown CPU bugs.

I do like some of your theories and it kinda makes sense to me because I suspect Microsoft doesn't want it main cash cow go broke.

I disagree that this was done to boost hardware sales. The Y2K analogy doesn't make sense because people that bought new during the lockdown for the most part have win 11 compliant PCs. I think Microsoft wants to save money on support by not wanting to test updates on a multitude of old generation hardware. The only make a few dollars selling a windows license to an oem, then needs to support that license for 10 years. This cannot be cheap. Also why put up with the negative publicity when someone with a "Black Friday Special" complains of problems upgrading their atom-powered, 2GB ram powerhouse.

I understand why people are upset over the requirements for Windows 11. I too have several machines do not meet the Windows 11 requirements. They run Windows 10 just fine. My 10th gen I7 is not much faster than my first gen I7 for running office apps and surfing the web. For gaming, video editing, or running simulations it gets crushed, but most people don't use those types of applications. My GF is happy with the third gen I3 laptop I gave her with upgraded ram and an SSD. It does what she wants it to do.

When Microsoft pulls support for Windows 10, maybe that will be the year of the linux desktop.

The requirements were to boost new hardware and new system sales. I agree with you, the approaching expiration of Windows 10 will cause massive amounts of e-waste. Personally I doubt Microsoft will relax the requirements to minimize e-waste. More likely to extend Windows 10 support, but the results will be the same over the following year or two.

I'll be waiting for Windows-as-a-service to raise it's ugly head, then I'm ready for 100% Linux. I've been playing with it for 20 years so I know exactly what I need.

Really hope you are right

11 is ridiculous. I have 32 gb of ddr3 ram with a gtx 1060 6 gb and I can't use 11 why? My pc runs flawlesly. Granted, its an older motherboard with an older cpu, but it's from 2018, not from 2002. Yeah, I know I can use workarounds to install it, but it's the principle of the thing.

I think it's a sensible theory and you could very well be right. I read something which claimed that the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs were being used as excuses for this too. Even though they've been largely nothing-burgers at this stage.

If i'm forced to by a new computer it will be an Apple product. I will not play Microsofts game any further.

Use Linux!

It's corporate greed, plain and simple. Yes, Y2K was overblown hyperbole. Nothing happened. And idiots were putting "Y2K" compliance stickers on CHAIRS, DESKS, a PENCIL HOLDER. The guy was either an idiot or in a very cantankerous mood. Also, Microsoft did say Windows 10 is the last version. I heard it and so did everyone else. Then I heard Microsoft deny they ever said it.

Completely agreed Microsoft wants people to buy new computers

I said reasonly in a comment I installed a new SSD and when to try to install windows 11 again that the NoCPUorTPMCheck MoSetup folder was missing. I ran the PC health check and I didn't have Secure Boot actived??? So maybe user error, I did notice I could manual add the MoSetup folder so, maybe wrong about it being remove, if you read the comments to your video's, I'm all over it. Next build AM5 once prices start to fall in two years time.

People do same with smart phones been saying this years except they always go out spend a pay check on s21 s22 s23 s24🤣🤣💯

Isn't it funny that Windows 11 WILL run on a Raspberry Pi 4? I know, that's Arm but still....

I completely agree. I hadn't thought of this but I knew that they were up to something. I do think that a government will step in at some point to address the MASSIVE e-waste that will result. I say that it is the EU. They aren't into taking crap like this from the tech industry and aren't afraid to give them a spanking when they get out of line. It won't be consumer PCs causing the problem. It's the business machines. In case you don't know, big companies lease and don't update Windows until the lease is up and they upgrade. That's where all of those MS Certified Refurbished machines come from. These have quality hardware and will give the average consumer many years of service at a bargain price. Trouble is, they sell for pennies on the dollar. Refurbishers may not want to buy and refurbish if they are uncertain if they will sell. A few will - Linux and those who don't care about using Windows after EOL. Therefore, into the dump they go.

I think Microsoft has removed the register hack that allows the install of windows 11 on 4th Gen Intel CPUs, because I can't find it. I'm running a i7 4770 with TPM 1.2 and all requirements but then I upgraded C: drive to a SSD, clean install and can't find hack anymore. I'm also using a GTX 1060 and the GPU, not the CPU seams to be the biggest bottle neck. Seam like the requirements are just to get people to buy new hardware. I won't be upgrading or going back to Windows 11 until official support of windows 10 ends, unless my motherboard breaks, which happen to my 3rd gen Intel.

#7 minutes. Because of a leaked Beta that had came [sic] out a few weeks before. No! No! No! Because of a leaked Beta that had COME out a few weeks before!

10 years old computers are good enough for normal everyday use. Majority of users there is no reason to update computers. So why not force them do it. Im with 4th gen i7. Not playing (this would be ok for playing too), so there is no any reason to upgrade hardware, except Win 11. Somebody wants my perfectly good working hardware to be carbon footprint in wasteland...

Willie G and his compatriots have always engaged in weaselly shenanigans (way back stealing DOS). This “conspiracy” theory is well within the realm of possibility.

yeah i see it . its kinda a thing one with money and insight would do . if they did m fine with it , as long as workarounds work :D

All this (including old linux not working on new hardware) has taught me buy backup hardware and save it for years later when they break stuff. Backing up data useless if nothing to run it on.

The people working on Linux kernel way outnumbered to keep up with changes my opinion. Too often found myself months learning something then people yank the rug out and people advertise jobs for the next buzz word with no clue if it even fits their campus.

Even the Chinese love old software and Dell has been dependable ... but you never know when that can change.

Kernel writers maybe could find some baking cnc board machines to make their own hardware, or keep favorite motherboards going once patents expire.

Just because I don't believe in all Microsoft policies, should not foreclose on good developers. I will keep buying MS, but I am not running a vm to run older software they can siphon off snapshots of when I am not looking.

I think they would if they could. Newest macro product requires MSA, no it does not. Only if you want to develop software watching people do things?

Open source people sometimes do that too? Last two decades big changes.

I mean yeah, I get it, a laptop laying around the office you don't want the cleaning lady taking a hard drive out and cloning it. On the otherhand some of these machines just seem throttled.

I have Microsoft and anything that has to do with it. Those company are freaking us over.

Microsoft is driving people to buy MAC computers. They think everyone makes 6 figure salaries out of silicone valley and can afford to buy new expensive computers and hardware at will. They also change things that aren't broken or work well. They make everything less intuitive and simple as time goes on. They are running a cottage industry in windows manual books to relearn systems instead of building on them. I have a lot of photos and folders that windows puts in their order and I spend 15 minutes searching for them. In old XP pro , you could move your most used folders to the top and keep your photos in any order you wanted to! MS dosen't adhere to the KISS principle. They adhere to the complex and disoriented principle . Instead of retaining great features they can add to, they throw them out and create a new complicated mess!

same as APPLE

8.52 video starts...thank me later

Here in Britain Y2K didn't turn out to be much of a problem despite the BBC saying that computers would explode.

I know why because they want money lots of money. Like how many people have TPM on their computers. I seen your videos but it was crazy the lengths to be able to still use your hardware with windows 11. every computer I have well windows 11 say nop LOL.

This could be Microsoft's downfall, Google have released Chromebook OS for older x86 based computers / laptops, you ditch windows 10, and load in the chrome os instead, which will breath a new life into old laptops running windows 10 when it goes end of life. As we know with android, once it gains traction people switch and never go back. Watch out Microsoft, greed will be your downfall.

That is... Not entirely implausible. A pretty good theory actually.

I hear what you are saying and it is very likely true, however I can't see major companies replacing all their computers.

This sounds very logical ...
Microsoft = (Wintel) Planned Obsolescence anyway , as it was with Windows 8 & 10 the same way => higher (bloat caused) requirements in reality despite the very old Windows 3.0 grafics instead of Aero-Glass ... When I today use Windows 7 I feel like warped into the Future , even more than in the past when I changed from Windows XP to Windows 7

I didn’t rename either of my windows ISO’s, so I installed my windows 10 one instead of 11 by accident. But, bro, they bug the heck out of you to upgrade to 11. It’s kind of sad actually. My computer wakes up from sleep or gets turned on and I get a splash screen thag basically says “Pweas upgwade to 11 😢”

Windows 11 System Requirements Nvidia n Gpu prices the list is getting longer

I suspect it was so they could offer passwordless logins, more data for analysis and identification of systems. I'd like to say it's a conspiracy theory but that is the way it is going, privacy is dying.
Today's kids will get to talk about the year 2038 problem, or Y2K38 which could be far more of a problem than Y2K was.

Also, Microsoft is trying to make Windows to a product as a service subscription and add even more spyware into it.

I'm seriously thinking that I won't be getting it any time soon