Windows 11

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Originally Posted by Mendax47

well, right now i have no interest in Windows 11 which won't even support 7gen processor... you can only install the dev build and test and report bugs.. and they fix and on the final day well get bamboos from Microsoft because we don't have 8gen processor.. we are just beta tester.. XD

It's not a guarantee but Microsoft is 'listening' to all the backlash they got when they announced the requirements and may dial it back some to older processors over time:

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/06/28/update-on-windows-11-minimum-system-requirements/

Overall though, people already showed the current requirements and even the reduced ones are all nonsense and you can install it on some extremely old stuff without issue. Just requires some modifications to the ISO (mainly overwriting some installer files with Windows 10 versions to make it ignore hardware checks and such.)

Microsoft did this similar thing with Windows 10 by trying to lock it to newer processors before but the community quickly made patches to bypass that as well. Results will obviously vary based on driver/chipset support and if older drivers that were able to work with Win10 will still work on 11 going forward.