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
    2021-06-25T12:21:51+00:00

    Microsoft should support processors far older than in the list. There are a lot of people with older hardware that works just fine. Otherwise, most people won't bother upgrading to newer hardware just to get Windows 11. Windows userbase will become divided between Windows 10 and 11 and it will lose market share to Linux. Windows 11 will end up just like Windows Vista.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T09:52:09+00:00

    Could you please add i7-7700K CPU to accepted CPU. I promise you it will be more than sufficient to run windows 11

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T09:27:47+00:00

    I looked through the supported CPU's... Windows 11 doesn't support 7th generation Intel CPU's. Only 8th and above.

    That seems pretty dumb to me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:51:28+00:00

    Why is i7-7700 series systems excluded? it has TPM 2.0 & everything else. Ridiculous.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:43:39+00:00

    Oh, wow. So my i7-6700 is the reason why tool shows it's not meeting requirements, despite having TPM 2.0 etc.

    Just. Wow.

    This really bodes badly, looking at the CPU list anything before 8th gen Intel CPU and you're stuffed, can't believe that Microsoft wants to create so much Ewaste by having all Kaby Lake and lower systems shut out of Windows 11, the i7-6700 still holds up well on my daughters PC, has no trouble with most apps, games, and creator tools, she can stream and play with no issue.

    Horrendous decision making from Microsoft.

    The latest Steam Hardware Survey is very insightful to current hardware setups, Microsoft are shutting out high numbers of people/systems.

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