Though many people were happy seeing their device as Windows 11 compatible, a vast majority of the users were unhappy seeing the ' This PC can't run Windows 11' error message even though they are running new generation systems meeting the minimum system requirements listed by Microsoft.

Since then, people started checking the PC Health Check application to know whether their system is compatible with Windows 11, the next generation of Windows. In the end it’s still a software feature fixed/improved by hardware and then used to sell more PCs because otherwise capable computers would be 'too slow'.I’m all for security but I should be able to decide what is too slow…you’d think MS would want a larger population to be more secure and up to date.After the announcement of Windows 11 made last night, everyone is very excited to grab the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft. I don’t remember the details but it involved hypervisor/vm technology and sandboxing and that without a recent CPU that hardware accelerates these features, it could be 20-40% slower. If true, I hope MS actually tells people at some point. I’ll probably install it anyway when is more mature and doesnt actually remove features.I did see a technical reason for why 8th gen CPU posted in the comments on a story here on Thurrott a while back and it actually made sense from a technical perspective. If you’re in release preview ring you might see a message that your pc doesn’t meet the win 11 requirements and it offers a link to download the app.My surface pro 4 passes all requirements except the artificial CPU limit of 8th gen Intel.

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