The aforementioned Intel CPUs were launched some eight years ago; however, many of them still work okay up to this day and are compatible with Windows 11 as long as their motherboards sport the ...

However, these claims are overexaggerated. A recent Microsoft document about supported processors for Windows 11, version 24H2, was released, but it wasn't necessarily for the general public.

It seems the free upgrade path from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has been expanded to include machines that don’t meet ...

Additionally, Windows 11 version 24H2 introduced new CPU requirements (SSE4.2 and PopCnt instructions). Most Intel CPUs from 2009 or later and AMD CPUs from 2013 or later should meet these ...

This essentially ensures that the Windows 11 24H2 system requirements eligibility of compatible CPUs, and such, are properly maintained by hardware partners like AMD, or Intel, among others.

The company assures that existing Windows 11 users with older Intel processors will continue to receive support and updates for version 24H2.

A few days after the announcement of “Recall” for Windows 11, a developer demonstrated that it can run on unsupported CPUs. Currently, “Recall” is designed to work on so-called Copilot+ PCs.

A similar incident occurred recently in Windows 10, leading to compatibility problems for some older processors. Microsoft has not yet officially commented on this situation.

In particular, 67.5% of CPUs, 93.8% of RAM, and 74.8% of TPMs met the requirements. However, this still leaves 32% of devices that are not compatible with the Windows 11 update.