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Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor
As the screenshots below show, Microsoft considers the Intel Pentium 4 661 a supported processor. Intel released the Pentium 4 661 in early 2006, with a solitary core to its name. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to add any Intel Family 15 (Netburst) SKUs in its unsupported processors list for Windows 11.
Hence, the PC Health Check tool sees that the Pentium 4 661 has a 3.6 GHz boost clock, which satisfies one of Windows 11's requirements. Curiously, the tool states that the Pentium 4 661 has two or more cores, even though it lists it as having one.
@Carlos_SM1995 has even got Windows 11 (Build 22000.258) running on a Pentium 4 661. Supposedly, Windows Update still works too, highlighting the ridiculousness of Microsoft's overtures regarding Windows 11 compatibility.
Windows 11 final (Build 22000.258) running on Intel Pentium 4 (11m4s video)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 20 2021, @01:58AM (2 children)
I suspect it's a bit of industry collusion (sell new hardware) based in a little bit of technical pain in the ass details on some of the blacklisted processors. Sure, they could solve those problems with the not-so-old chips, but that would cost development time and money - so why do it when you can make your industry partners happy by pushing the new hardware?
Windows 10 was just coming out when we were starting development on our new generation of a product originally launched in the 1980s. This is the fourth generation, previous generation is past 15 years on the market and getting hard to source parts for. When Windows 10 was selected for use in the product it was touted as the "forever Windows - last version there will be, just going to do rolling patches from here until the heat death of the Universe" or something along those lines. I told the Redmondites: "yeah, sure..." and here we are. I suspect 10 going end of life is going to happen before this generation of hardware expires. Hopefully our custom written .NET software ports to the next thing without too much pain.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday October 20 2021, @11:08AM (1 child)
I would have zero problem with them listing a bunch of processors as "deprecated" and unsupported. You run it on them, you're on your own, we don't patch for them. If it works, hey, good for you, if it doesn't, well, sucks to be you. That's all you get.
No problem with that.
What happens here is that they obviously check whether you try to run the software on certain hardware and explicitly do not allow you to do it. That's something VERY different than simply not supporting something, that's deliberately sabotaging it.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 20 2021, @03:56PM
Yes, deliberate sabotage, and posturing that forcing consumers to upgrade "for their own good" is acceptable. My answer to that has been a hard opt out whenever I have a choice, but in the end this is shaping our children's world and they need to be the ones who stand up and call out the B.S. as unacceptable.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end