

said in a follow-up tweet (Opens in a new window). has had no problems receiving updates for his own Pentium-powered PC. “Windows update still works on this machine and even installed the Patch Tuesday,” Carlos S.M. If you do install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC, Microsoft warns your machine may not be eligible to receive automatic updates. Microsoft has announced that PCs running on older hardware will be able to install Windows 11. Doing so will also stop a Windows 11 installation from checking what CPU family the computer is running.

Microsoft itself has released instructions on how to bypass the TPM 2.0 requirement. To underscore the point, the company released a list of eligible CPUs, and the processors only go as far back as late 2017. However, the company has also quietly acknowledged that older PCs without TPM 2.0 can run Windows 11 - so long as the user decides to manually install the OS onto their machine. Officially, Microsoft has said a PC must possess a newer security feature called TPM 2.0 in order to run Windows 11.
