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

Anonymous
2021-06-24T16:00:22+00:00

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we announced Windows 11, and we know you are excited to get your hands on it. You can check out all the details on how to prepare for Windows 11 Insider Preview builds on our blog post.

Once you've reviewed the blog, please use this post to ask any related questions you may have.

We are excited to hear your feedback!!

-The Windows Insider Team

***UPDATE***

For users who are receiving the following message in your Windows Insider Settings:

Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. Your device may continue to receive Insider Preview builds until Windows 11 is generally available, at which time it is recommended to clean install to Windows 10.

We've made an update to Settings to resolve some issues. Please reboot your device to ensure you have the latest update.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T00:14:05+00:00

    “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.  

    BURN.  Note that Microsoft previously mentioned that the CPU generation was a "soft floor" requirement. If you met the other requirements, you would get a warning when installing Windows 11, but you could still proceed:

    "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.

    Hard Floor:

    - CPU: Core >= 2 and Speed >= 1 GHz
    - System Memory: TotalPhysicalRam >= 4 GB
    - Storage: 64 GB
    - Security: TPM Version >= 1.2 and SecureBootCapable = True
    - Smode: Smode is false, or Smode is true and C_ossku in (0x65, 0x64, 0x63, 0x6D, 0x6F, 0x73, 0x74, 0x71)

    Soft Floor:
    - Security: TPMVersion >= 2.0
    - CPU Generation*"*

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/windows-11/

    The webpage was later dumbed-down and they removed the soft/hard floor details. This doesn't necessarily prove that the soft floor has been changed, they may simply be obscuring it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T00:29:19+00:00

    Its an AMD...

     AMD A10-9700 RADEON R7, 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G 3.50 GHz

    Hopefully when the final build is out, its supported. Added to the list.

    If not........... oh welllllllll.  Guess I'll have to get a new PC. LOLOL  

    But what I posted wasnt for me.. it was for those that have bought a PC the last

    5 yrs.  Thats not fair for them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T00:29:48+00:00

    So false is this company that they are deleting comments from those who explain that certain countries cannot change their hardware configuration, the microsft seems like a child demanding something useless to run the system

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T00:34:05+00:00

    Yeah I know.. but my CPU is a quad core  and 3.5 Ghz     RAM" I have 32GB Storage?? I have 1 TB

    and as I said in post I have TPM 2.0 and secureboot..  both enabled . LOLOL

    - CPU: Core >= 2 and Speed >= 1 GHz
    - System Memory: TotalPhysicalRam >= 4 GB
    - Storage: 64 GB
    - Security: TPM Version >= 1.2 and SecureBootCapable = True

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