In 2021 Windows 11 limited official support to 4yo Intel & 3yo AMD chips

[driedmango]

If Microsoft repeats this again next year with 2024 Windows 12 how would you react that they limit it to 2020 Intel & 2021 AMD chips?

Assuming Microsoft does not this and instead make 7yo Intel 8th gen & 6yo AMD 2nd gen Ryzen chips have a hard requirements then...

 

[driedmango]

Assuming Microsoft hardens this requirement to completely disallow manual install of Windows 12 on anything older than 7+ older hardware will you keep running Windows 11 until its 122 month end of support by Dec 2031 or upgrade to newer parts upon the 1st 12 months of release?

Personally I'd keep Windows 11 running "as is" until the end of 2031 then buy into a 0.7nm (A7) ARM PC released within the 1st half of 2032.

Hopefully, a decade's R&D will make ARM SoCs ~80% & legacy x86 chips ~20% of all PCs for future Windows.