Nuked Hey everyone! Nuked here, tech enthusiast and lover of all things tech. Today I want to talk about Microsoft’s latest mistake, where they accidentally offered Windows 11 upgrades to unsupported PCs.
Twitter user PhantomOcean3 first spotted the mistake earlier this week, when fullscreen prompts were being shown on unsupported hardware. Microsoft has since explained the mistake, noting that PCs that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11 weren’t able to complete the upgrade.
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has made this kind of mistake. Last year they offered the Windows 11 upgrade to PCs that weren’t officially supported. This highlighted Microsoft’s strict minimum hardware requirements for their latest operating system.
Windows 11 officially requires Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, with very few exceptions. While there are easy ways to install Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, Microsoft has been testing a new desktop watermark on unsupported hardware.
This latest mistake comes just weeks before Microsoft is expected to deliver some additional improvements to Windows 11. In an update referred to internally at Microsoft as “Moment 2”, they are preparing to add a full search box to the taskbar, improve search in the Start menu, add a tablet-optimized taskbar, and roll out a redesigned system tray.
