Microsoft might not deliver Windows 11 updates to PCs with old CPUs

RTO · 08-28-2021, 05:29 PM

Microsoft might let you install Windows 11 on PCs with older processors, but that doesn't mean you'll get the full experience you'd find on newer machines. The company told The Verge that PCs with unsupported CPUs aren't 'entitled' to get Windows 11 updates, and might not even get driver or security upgrades. You may have to get more recent hardware just to keep your system secure, in other words.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/m...194632054.html

Keeping up with OSs, hardware, drivers and software is a never ending task.

Czubek · 08-28-2021, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by RTO

Microsoft might let you install Windows 11 on PCs with older processors, but that doesn't mean you'll get the full experience you'd find on newer machines. The company told The Verge that PCs with unsupported CPUs aren't 'entitled' to get Windows 11 updates, and might not even get driver or security upgrades. You may have to get more recent hardware just to keep your system secure, in other words.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/m...194632054.html

Keeping up with OSs, hardware, drivers and software is a never ending task.

That's a fact!

Brian

JD Miller · 08-28-2021, 08:42 PM

all about sales and mo $$$ for assboy gates

Czubek · 08-29-2021, 05:18 PM

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all about sales and mo $$$ for assboy gates

Partially, but you go and install an advanced operating system that uses a lot of resources on an old system and you'd be even more pissed.

Brian

RTO · 08-30-2021, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Czubek

Partially, but you go and install an advanced operating system that uses a lot of resources on an old system and you'd be even more pissed.

Brian

Yep, that was me back in the early days (for me) when I had to get with the program and leave DOS for Windows. Windows was really messed up back then and for a long while actually.

aviator · 08-30-2021, 11:18 AM

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Yep, that was me back in the early days (for me) when I had to get with the program and leave DOS for Windows. Windows was really messed up back then and for a long while actually.

So you played with DOS too? Back in time when computers did not have a hard drive and you had to load DOS from a floppy before running anything else and only had 64 Kb of memory on board....Oh yeah, that was fun. I can go even further back to writing Fortran programs on a key punch machine to be run by the mainframe on another room. That sucked.

55chevy · 08-30-2021, 11:59 AM

Played with Fortran in 1964, worked through Dos, SCO Xenix Linux etc. Now every system is back to using some form of Unix.

RTO · 08-30-2021, 07:01 PM

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So you played with DOS too? Back in time when computers did not have a hard drive and you had to load DOS from a floppy before running anything else and only had 64 Kb of memory on board....Oh yeah, that was fun. I can go even further back to writing Fortran programs on a key punch machine to be run by the mainframe on another room. That sucked.

Yes, I liked DOS and being able to maintain my own computers. I was so excited to get my first 8088/8086 computer after having been playing with Atari and TRS-80s. Then on to a 286 with PC Tools, etc.

When Windows came out I was a doubter that it would catch on because it seemed to crash almost every other time that I used it.

Czubek · 08-31-2021, 08:03 AM

I really liked DOS and was pretty good with it. Still have a couple sets of disks for it. I think the versions I have are 3.1 and 3.11. Would I go back to it? No way. But, it was a wonderful way to learn operating systems and how to make things work. There are still many ghosts of it in today's OS.

Brian

ZastavaGuy · 11-27-2021, 03:51 PM

I wouldn't even consider running anything more than XP on anything less than a P4-3GHz. I base that on tests of MicroSlut products on that, and older rigs. I've got an Athlon (1000MHz) based system that SCO UnixWare 7.0.1 lives on, and a P2-266 based box running OS/2 Warp 4. That's my only use for old systems, so Microsoft's limitations are pretty meaningless to me.

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RTO Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Flarda Posts: 29,605	Microsoft might not deliver Windows 11 updates to PCs with old CPUs Microsoft might let you install Windows 11 on PCs with older processors, but that doesn't mean you'll get the full experience you'd find on newer machines. The company told The Verge that PCs with unsupported CPUs aren't 'entitled' to get Windows 11 updates, and might not even get driver or security upgrades. You may have to get more recent hardware just to keep your system secure, in other words. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/m...194632054.html Keeping up with OSs, hardware, drivers and software is a never ending task. __________________ 3 Make America Like Florida

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55chevy Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central Orygun Posts: 4,401	Played with Fortran in 1964, worked through Dos, SCO Xenix Linux etc. Now every system is back to using some form of Unix.

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Czubek slug Join Date: May 2007 Location: Stover, Missouri Posts: 33,622	I really liked DOS and was pretty good with it. Still have a couple sets of disks for it. I think the versions I have are 3.1 and 3.11. Would I go back to it? No way. But, it was a wonderful way to learn operating systems and how to make things work. There are still many ghosts of it in today's OS. Brian

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ZastavaGuy Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Eastern Kentucky Posts: 82	I wouldn't even consider running anything more than XP on anything less than a P4-3GHz. I base that on tests of MicroSlut products on that, and older rigs. I've got an Athlon (1000MHz) based system that SCO UnixWare 7.0.1 lives on, and a P2-266 based box running OS/2 Warp 4. That's my only use for old systems, so Microsoft's limitations are pretty meaningless to me.