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

I will bow out as impractical for me as not even minimum as i have the i7/7700k,, No uefi/secureboot and just a TPM header and I dont plan on buying any p.c. in the future just upgrade my homebrew P.C. eventually..

They do not truly answer everyone here or the vast majority already know that to force the purchase of new computers they will make thousands of computers outdated simply for their liking. Developers are preoccupation they can't even do windows 10 works right now they want to put a thousand resources but it has to be their way.

Assuming that "they" in your comment is Microsoft, why would Microsoft want to force purchase of new computers? With the exception of Surface-branded computers, which is a tiny fraction of the PC/laptop market, Microsoft does not sell computers.

Ok here's my 2 cents. LOL  

They said that TPM has been around for the last 5 - 7 years.  

“Almost every CPU in the last 5-7 years has a TPM,” explains David Weston, director of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft.

If that's the case, then those CPU's should be supported to be able to upgrade to Windows 11.  

My PC, which is 3 yrs old, has TPM2.0  And passes every requirement except the CPU.

I think Weston's tweet was referring to "CPU" in the generic sense, as a computer, not as a central processing unit. (Nine out of 10 people think a 'CPU' is a complete, assembled computer and only vaguely guess at what a 'processor' is.) It is my understanding that a TPM is a physical module that is installed in a motherboard, either soldered in at the factory or plugged into a TPM motherboard header. (One of my motherboards has a TPM header, but there is no TPM on the motherboard.)

So that's why you can have TPM enabled in the UEFI but your CPU still does not pass the CPU (processor) threshold that Microsoft has set. Speculation: With the case of so many relatively current Intel series CPUs not qualifying, it would lead me to believe the reason has do due with the multitude of security bugs endemic to previous Intel chip series due to the company's chip architecture shortcuts (my opinion on 'shortcuts').

if you don't have a tpm then you need to go ot the bios and look for and option named

PTT and enable it

now try to install w11 again

Intel PTT is basically thefirmware alternative to a the hardware based TPM

@antoniooninato,

Unfortunately many machines don't have TPM nor PTT and they are out of the game unless MS removes that requirement. 😒

Definitely would be helpful if the Microsoft "AI" would help us zero in on specific area of concern.  Hope you submitted this to Feedback Hub too.   Looks like there are some good tools being mentioned to ferret out what are the 'real' specs.

Running DXDIAG does seem to report the correct build that is installed on mine vs the build reported on PC Health Check.  

Would be surprised if we don't see a much better version the beginning of next week and perhaps better clarification of requirements for Insiders vs the Users of the Released product if there is such a thing.  

Just like Musk rockets sometimes it takes a few attempts to get them into orbit. Am sure they are working to make this a smooth(er) transition. There will be some security requirements put into place as that is part of the new OS.  It would not be Windows 11 if they just changed a few menus and changed the wallpaper..  .