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Microsoft Now Rolling Out Windows 11 to More Eligible Devices

posted by martyb on Thursday October 28 2021, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-sorry dept.

chromas writes:

Microsoft now rolling out Windows 11 to more eligible devices:

Microsoft is now rolling out the Windows 11 upgrade to more eligible Windows devices as part of a phased rollout designed to deliver a smooth upgrade experience.

"The availability of Windows 11 has been increased and we are leveraging our latest generation machine learning model to offer the upgrade to an expanded set of eligible devices," Microsoft said in an update to the Windows health dashboard.

[...] Windows 10 users can upgrade to Windows 11 via Windows Update as long as their computers come with compatible hardware.

To install Windows 11 on eligible devices, they also need to run Windows 10 2004 and later and have installed at least the September 2021 updates.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Marand on Thursday October 28 2021, @10:40PM (1 child)

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday October 28 2021, @10:40PM (#1191492) Journal

    my Skylake based machine (i5-6260U) with 8G RAM wasn't good enough for Win 11.

    If it makes you feel better, my Ryzen 7 1700 (8c/16t) running at 3.7ghz with 64GB of RAM also isn't good enough. Not for any actual, legitimate reasons, either; it's just because Microsoft decided that 2nd-gen Ryzen is the cutoff, so anything older can get fucked even if it meets all reqs. I literally run a Windows 10 VM with higher specs than they require (6c/12t, 24GB RAM) but I couldn't install it bare-metal if I tried because MS just decided "nah, fuck off, buy new hardware or go fuck yourself."

    Which is fine with me, since I don't actually want to install Windows on it, but it's still fucking hilarious that my ridiculously overspecced system isn't eligible to use it due to a completely arbitrary cutoff.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday October 29 2021, @03:33AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Friday October 29 2021, @03:33AM (#1191567) Homepage

    Which reminds me, I should let my box of the numerous boot drives attempt it, just so I can laugh and point. (Xeon 3.7GHz with 64GB on a Lenovo workstation board that swears up and down it has a Win10 license, acquired through no fault of its own. It shipped with Win7.)

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