Comment by falcor84
2 days ago
> And it will hard require a pretty recent processor with Neural Processor Unit to make it work
Am I right to understand that as people don't upgrade their hardware, they're safe from that, right? Sounds like a plus to me.
Nope, you go to upgrade, because windows update downloaded it and restarted, and it tells you “Your processor is not supported”.
Why would it be any different than the Windows 7 -> Windows 10 debacle? Disabling entire processor families after it boots into installation and wiped the previous windows.
I think they fixed that to some degree. I have an old win10 PC that now has a persistent "upgrade to W11" banner that informs me my PC is below spec, so I can't upgrade. Fine by me!
Eventually Microsoft will stop providing security updates to their old OS, compelling users to upgrade if they want to stay on Windows
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Almost nobody has this functionality on their desktop processor. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy but there's enough real problems to yell about without making some up. The agentic AI will even be entirely opt in.
It's not. Like TPM and several new CPU features are a hard requirement for Windows 11, which are patched out by tools like Rufus but can lead to a broken system with every single update you install, a NPU is a hard requirement for the upcoming major update with agentic AI.
They got a storm of criticism after that announcement, but Microsoft seemingly has not given a single fuck about that and has not backtracked on this decision.
(Just like they technically could have allowed Windows 11 to run on older PCs with some disabled features out of the box, but didn't)
Lots of people are now upgrading hardware because of the end of standard Windows 10 updates