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Change to 0.

:)

Until the next update changes everything.

The game of cat and mouse continues...

What is it with the people at Microsoft, that think they have the god given right to do this?

Maybe someone should point out to Satya Nadella, the ins and outs of the simplicity of an MK light switch, because the 'current ones' have been in place 15 years in my house, and never once have they failed, and never once have MK told me they are 'out of date' and need replacing.

Microsoft Windows does the drudge, in the same way as an MK light switch and like MK light switches, the basic functionality of Windows hasn't changed since Windows 7 or even longer, aka. 15 years.

Microsoft needs to remember it's what happens in the room when the light is on that is important, not the switch itself.

Well there's also shitheads like TurboTax that declared my Windows 7 unacceptable

Then the fun began when Windows 10 shit the bed when it saw my USB CDROM drive, which works fine in Linux and Windows 7. No amount of Windows updates, BIOS updates, or driver installs made it work.

"Even when circumvented, Microsoft takes pains to notify users, which can get cumbersome in enterprise environments. (This will be rare, as Windows 11 on unsupported hardware is nightmare fuel for admins.)"

FTFY

Certainly a support nightmare, because users will wonder where all the right click context-sensitive menus have disappeared to.

Even the option to delete a file is somewhat hidden (non-obvious), in Windows 11, with users having to resort to a modern icon on the 'command bar' (replaces the ribbon bar), in Windows 11 file explorer, the menu option 'Delete' is now missing, hidden under 'Show more options'.

Microsoft needs to wake up to the fact that I will NOT buy new hardware whenever they decide they want more revenue...

This will be a great opportunity for users to abandon Windows and all their favourite apps, and move over to Linux and the pleasures of apt-get.

Can't tell if you are being sincere or if you actually struggle with apt-get... ;).

I will give you an up-vote for the benefit of the doubt.

Other package managers are available.

Choose the distro that meets your own use case.

now.

Exactly. It's so nice when I can say "apt install [package]" and it downloads it, figures out what else needs to be installed, and just does it.

I say "apt update" and "apt upgrade" on the 1st and 15th of the month and I'm good to go.

It Just Works.

"Fresh Windows 11 installations from an ISO file don't check for hardware requirements, so if you're willing to start fresh you might be able to avoid this entire kerfuffle."

Microsoft changed things very late in the day, and obfuscated things, regarding the retail ISO "Get Windows 11 ISO".

There are 'hard blocks' in place even for a clean install.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows11/

The ISO (downloaded from this URL) does check the hardware requirements during a clean install and places 'hard blocks' in place on the hardware if there is no TPM chip, Secure Boot enabled or a processor that meets the minimum specification (Intel Gen 8 or later).

Yes, there are ways to bypass this (registry setting hacks or removal of a key file from the ISO), but the ISO by default 'as shipped' has 'hard blocks' in place for both a clean install and an in place upgrade.

It won't install, and you can't bypass those checks, i.e. Microsoft doesn't treat such checks as a warning during the installation aka. 'soft blocks', it stops you from installing Windows 11.

That's because Microsoft believes it is their computer, not yours and they only want the latest and best hardware for their attempts at a working OS.

Those of us who have supported hardware and still don't want to trust Win11 for the next few years?

Silent updates.

Silent updates? That'l be Linux then...

Yep. One day soon you'll power on your PC and be greeted with a fullscreen "Hi! We upgraded your computer to Windows 11 for you! Now while we move all your personal data to our cloud, create your Microsoft account so you can log in, and check out all these amazing offers and addictive games from our carefully selected partners! We think you'll love Candy Soda Saga!"

I wish I was certain I was joking.

Microsoft's strict hardware requirements for Windows 11 are well known, and the method for bypassing them is likely also known to anyone who needs to run Windows 11 on older computers or in a virtual environment.

What is not so well known is how to prevent Micros~1 from installing Win 11 on a machine that meets "Micros~1's strict hardware requirements", because the machine's "operator" 1 just doesn't want it.

1 I originally typed "owner" here, but as any fule nose, from Micros~1's perspective, you don't own your machine...they do.

I guess disabling the TPM in the BIOS should mean it doesn't make the requirement?

Although I expect MS will start to silently drop these restrictions if the number of Windows 11 installs doesn't tick up and too many people stick on 10.

But then you get a huge warning in the Settings -> Windows Update saying the system isn't W11 compatible etc. Fortunately this isn't a problem, W10 will continue to update. Although like GWX, expect the nagging to get more desperate as we get closer to W10 EoL.

However, if MS determines your machine is W11 compatible, you do have problems as it seems it only permits the installation of critical updates, blocking feature updates from say 2004/20H2/21H1 to 21H2, they would much prefer users to click on the upgrade now to W11. Whilst there are ways around this, it should be unnecessary

Those of us who have more than adequate hardware (I do) and STILL have no intention of "trusting" Win -any number you like - EVER? Icon cos you already know what I TRUST.

they come out with this...

The more that they apply clusterfucks like this to the OS... the happier I feel for getting off their bandwagon in half a decade ago..

macOS and Linux provide all my computing needs. microsoft.com is blocked at my firewall and has been for 4+ years.

"Operating System usability and functionality requirements not met. Must try a lot harder."

Now piss off and try again.

Windows 10 is the last version of Windows you will ever need.

If and when Microsoft decides to add some feature(s) to Win11 that will require certain functions only found on the supported CPU list, people won't be able to claim that they weren't duly warned.