Microsoft confirms Windows 11 will only support 8th Gen and up CPUs

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10 points·amatheus··7 comments

Seems like this list is still a WIP. At least I hope so, I don't see why my i7-3770 shouldn't be supported. If only 8th gen+ are supported, looks like there's going to be a lot of e-waste.

I don't see why my ThinkPad P50 with an Intel Core i7 Skylake @ 2.60GHz with 4 cores and 8 threads cannot be supported. I really don't get it. I will stay with Win10 or move to Linux.

Or people will just keep running old operating systems. I knew folks running XP until 2016.

I hope this changes... Unfortunately the games I enjoy the most I'm stuck playing with battleye anticheat so Linux is out of the question, but I'm running a 4770k with a newer gpu (and my setup still powers through anything that isn't 3d modeling!)

sigh This does not "confirm" anything.

The source is a list of CPUs that OEMs are allowed to preinstall different versions of Win11 on. There are lists for Win10 and Win8.1 also. Many CPUs are left off those lists, which Win10 and Win8.1 run fine on.

Everything's fine here except the Twitter flamebait.

The question is why? What features of newer CPUs are they using that aren't in older processors? Is it the built-in security processors in new CPUs or taking advantage of newer instructions?

The current list says even my not very old AMD 1700X won't be supported.

They have been dropping support aggressively since 10, they say hardware partners don't support older generations.

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