Preparing for Insider Preview Builds of Windows 11 - ***UPDATED 6/28***

I am now really struggling to understand why Surface Go (original) is not compatible with Windows 11. On the stated minimum requirements, Surface Go matches or exceeds everything in the requirements. It is only when I check the (just released) Windows 11 compatible processor list at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors that I understand why it reports as being not able to run Windows 11: The Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y (64-bit, 2-core, 1.6GHz) that is used on the original Surface Go is NOT listed, while the identical (apart from speed, as far as I can tell) Pentium Gold 4425Y (64-bit, 2-core, 1.7GHz) used on Surface Go 2 is listed as OK!

With Surface Go having been released less than 3 years ago (and the Surface Go 2 being released just over 1 year ago) I must admit that this is starting to feel a bit too much like Microsoft trying to push people to "upgrade" from Surface Go to a later Surface device... and frankly, I had expected better from Microsoft with their premium (and premium priced) Surface devices!

Given that it appears (from other posts) that MANY of Microsoft's Surface devices WON'T support Windows 11, I would suggest that the Windows 11 and Surface teams should be posting some clear detail about exactly WHICH models WILL support Windows 11, which won't and some explanation as to WHY they don't, especially when the minimum spec seems to have been met --- I can understand such decisions it if there is a specific instruction set or feature on a chip that is needed and not available, but when it seems to be only a 100MHz difference in stated processor speed when the CPU is already 60% higher than minimum, I am struggling to understand why.

Tpm  2.0 enabled,  secoure  boot  enabled, all  ok  in  win10 security, HVSI  enabled  and  running, 24  GB  RAM,   lot  of  disk  Space,  DIRECTX  12  display... What  do you  want... You've  just   eliminated many  CPU  models! I  have  Intel  core  i7 Gen4,  or any  Bios  dated  of  more  than  4 years, even  if  they  are  compliant and  don't    have  or  need  any  update.

Did you turn Secure Boot on?

I had same problem but only my TPM was turned off in Bios and not show that I meet requirements .

All in Green now.

@ Pauli O,

B,T.W.

The problem you mentioned yesterday with Settings->System->About not working, or OS Build Info, or Right click on This PC and check properties, I could reproduce it on 2 old machines that are Legacy BIOS, only with Upgrade from 21H1, a clean install worked fine with those settings options, everything worked normally.

I think we had this same exact problem on an older Development Build a few months back.

I did not have any of those issues at all on the Upgrade of the Dell XPS 8930 UEFI machine from 19043.1081 to Windows 11, everything works just fine with that machine.

Looks like the old machines are going to be out of this game. 😒

I think they will treat hard floor as minimum requirement and soft floor as recommended. Meaning we should be able to stay after GA
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/windows-11/
"There are new minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. In order to run Windows 11, devices must meet the following specifications. Devices that do not meet the hard floor cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, and devices that meet the soft floor will receive a notification that upgrade is not advised."

I was pleased to see that in the hard plan TPM is a minimum requirement 1.2 and here it is OK unfortunately there is always the limit of the processors that many are not compatible