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Windows 11 Unsupported on I7-7700
Why doesn't Microsoft Support the intel Core i7-7700 Processor for Windows 11 (22H2), I was checking the PC Health Check App and It said that I met the Requirements for Everything Else, Except for th...
Windows 11 will actually work on a lot of older CPUs, but every time there's an annual feature update you'll have to clean install as it will refuse to install it as an update. And no guarantee that normal updates won't break it either (although so far as I know none have done so yet),
The chances of Microsoft officially supporting earlier processors now is somewhere close to zero - they didn't back down despite all the criticism when W11 was first release, so there's no reason why they would do so several years on.
The chances of Microsoft officially supporting earlier processors now is somewhere close to zero - they didn't back down despite all the criticism when W11 was first release, so there's no reason why they would do so several years on.
simply put, it is all about money. They want to force a good number of people to buy new hardware. Most of the people I know who are in this position pretty much are going to retire out and rely on their smart phones to do things rather than cave to this rob your wallet mentality.