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Microsoft removes application to verify Windows 11 requirements - relaxes requirements
Earlier on, we reported a handy tool that verifies if your PC is compatible with the new Windows 11, which was short-lived as Microsoft removed it after several failures in the detection mechanism.
Microsoft has deleted the application that allowed us to verify that our PC met the minimum Windows 11 requirement following multiple detection failures.
Apparently even Microsoft itself does not currently know what the requirements of Windows 11 are. The company itself has now recognized that it evaluates various requirements and thus the application is not testing against the final requirements and the results of your analysis may therefore be incorrect. For instance, first the company said that TPM 2.0 would be necessary but afterward it confirmed that only TPM 1.2 is required and there are also concerns about the compatibility of both AMD and Intel CPU generation.
The official minimum requirements are the following, although they may vary:
- Processor: 1 giga Hertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores in a compatible 64-bit processor or system on a chip (SoC). Intel Core 8th. Generation or higher, or 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen. Generation or higher.
- Memory: 4GB RAM
- Storage: Storage device of 64 GB or more
- Graphics card: DirectX 12 / WDDM 2.x compatible graphics
- Screen: > 9 ″ with HD resolution (720p)
- Internet connection: Windows 11 Home requires a Microsoft account and Internet connectivity
- TPM 2.0 support
Updated: The minimum system requirements are now changed by Microsoft. Microsoft stresses that Intel, AMD Zen 2 and Qualcomm 7 and 8-series SOCs of the eighth generation would run Windows 11. The software company will also make sure through Insiders builds that Ryzen processors and Intel Gen 7 in the first generation are still adequate enough.
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#5925217 Posted on: 06/29/2021 01:29 PM
How will they know if my screen is larger than 9"?
How will they know if my screen is larger than 9"?
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#5925220 Posted on: 06/29/2021 01:34 PM
Microsoft:
- Windows 10 is the last, we will continue to update it.
- There is no Windows 11
- Hello to the new Windows 11
- Windows 10 will be no more after 2025
- TPM 2.0 is required, it's a great time to buy a new PC!
- Well we are pasted&copied by OEM full system manufactures specifications, but we cannot tell you that.
- DirectStorage needs at least 1TB of space!
- You can verify with app.
- TPM 1.2 is also fine
- We updated the app.
- DirectStorage doesn't really need at least 1TB
- TPM 2.0 only, TPM 1.2 no more fine
- TPM 2.0 is required because on enterprise ecosystems most of attacks can be mitigated or nullified by TPM 2.0 technologies.
- Special OEM and custom ISOs mostly like for enterprise ecosystems can bypass TPM checks.
- There is no real technical reason for hardware restrictions, but you will love it.
- Screw you gamers and casual users, you need TPM 2.0, no ryzen 1.0 or previous, no core 7xxx or previous.
- To be honest you can simply add 2 registry entries before installation and bypass it all, like it is on Virtual Machines (that runs even on single core, 2GB or less memory and WDDM 1.0 graphics!). You can even install it on VM and clone after on disc from VHD..But we cannot tell you this.
- App to verify is no more.
Microsoft:
- Windows 10 is the last, we will continue to update it.
- There is no Windows 11
- Hello to the new Windows 11
- Windows 10 will be no more after 2025
- TPM 2.0 is required, it's a great time to buy a new PC!
- Well we are pasted&copied by OEM full system manufactures specifications, but we cannot tell you that.
- DirectStorage needs at least 1TB of space!
- You can verify with app.
- TPM 1.2 is also fine
- We updated the app.
- DirectStorage doesn't really need at least 1TB
- TPM 2.0 only, TPM 1.2 no more fine
- TPM 2.0 is required because on enterprise ecosystems most of attacks can be mitigated or nullified by TPM 2.0 technologies.
- Special OEM and custom ISOs mostly like for enterprise ecosystems can bypass TPM checks.
- There is no real technical reason for hardware restrictions, but you will love it.
- Screw you gamers and casual users, you need TPM 2.0, no ryzen 1.0 or previous, no core 7xxx or previous.
- To be honest you can simply add 2 registry entries before installation and bypass it all, like it is on Virtual Machines (that runs even on single core, 2GB or less memory and WDDM 1.0 graphics!). You can even install it on VM and clone after on disc from VHD..But we cannot tell you this.
- App to verify is no more.
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#5925222 Posted on: 06/29/2021 01:35 PM
They don't care. It's an oem system requirement.
How will they know if my screen is larger than 9"?
They don't care. It's an oem system requirement.
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#5925224 Posted on: 06/29/2021 01:37 PM
To be fair that was one random developer.
Why can't it be both paradigms? Wouldn't that be a better strategy to make computing more secure?
Do you have a link to clarify the identity of the "random" developer mentioned here?
BTW, if you read my statement (expressed in the last paragraph); I do permit both paradigms...Microsoft makes their software as secure as possible, and I make my computer as secure as possible. It is not an issue as to whether both paradigms should exist; it is rather an issue of how they are promulgated.
To be fair that was one random developer.
Why can't it be both paradigms? Wouldn't that be a better strategy to make computing more secure?
Do you have a link to clarify the identity of the "random" developer mentioned here?
BTW, if you read my statement (expressed in the last paragraph); I do permit both paradigms...Microsoft makes their software as secure as possible, and I make my computer as secure as possible. It is not an issue as to whether both paradigms should exist; it is rather an issue of how they are promulgated.
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I remember clearly at the time Windows 10 was released; Microsoft said they would not be releasing any more new versions of Windows - yet here we are!
Additionally, over many years (and many Windows iterations), I remember clearly that Microsoft, when releasing new versions of Windows would post system requirements that had nothing to do with hardware level security - it was all about system performance levels - do you have enough RAM?; do you have an adequate CPU? Ect, ect.
Let me say it clearly, I prefer the system performance paradigm over the hardware security paradigm. Or put another way; Microsoft make your Windows environment as secure as you possibly can, and permit me the free liberty to take the necessary steps to make my rig (hardware) as secure as I possibly can!!
To be fair that was one random developer.
Why can't it be both paradigms? Wouldn't that be a better strategy to make computing more secure?