About two weeks ago, there was a bit of confusion about the system requirements for Windows 11 24H2, because Intel’s 8th Gen, 9th Gen, and 10th Gen processors had disappeared from the list of supported hardware. This seemed rather drastic, even by Windows 11 standards. I skipped posting about it on OSNews because I kind of assumed it must’ve been an error instead of actual policy, and it turns out that’s indeed the case.
A page update made on February 13, 2025 did not reflect accurate offerings. It has since been updated, including the addition of Intel processor models 8th, 9th, and 10th generation Intel CPUs, and the reclassification for select Intel processor models to support Windows 11.
↫ Windows 11 version 24H2 supported Intel processors
Good news for people still stuck on the Windows 11 train.
>”Good news for people still stuck on the Windows 11 train.”
The good news being that the train is driving straight over the edge of a cliff and taking them along for the ride?
As Steely Dan quipped in a song about our Utopian AI future, “What a beautiful world this will be, What a glorious time to be free.”
That’s from IGY, a solo single from Donald Fagan. One of half of Steely Dan 🙂
I assume the Steely half
Yeah, noone is upgrading, and 11 is losing marketshare to 10. It comes with new PCs at best. It is slower in almost all metric, and the 7% of the reath’s population that is visually impaired will stay with win7 or go to linux (not gnome, flat and stupid design)
>”Good news for people still stuck on the Windows 11 train.”
I thought this site was for unbiased info about operating systems, but seems more like a “Windows sucks” blog lately.
You must be very new here if you think anything here is unbiased. It’s become more an opinion site than a news site.
The fact that Windows sucks is a completely objective and unbiased conclusion. Benchmark testing has shown for years how much slower any version of Windows is compared to its modern GNU/Linux counterparts. Windows has been a complete failure on phone and other mobile devices, which is where 2/3 of the global population do their computing. You can’t have these kinds of existential failures affecting the future of your entire product lines and have it be considered any kind of a success. Face it – the future of Microsoft is in renting out cloud space, not in software development.
Wow i totally agree, but i think that microsoft can still win the browser market. Chromium and manifest 3 is set up to lose. Edge has a larger delevloper group than chromium (not chrome) and could easily make the google marketing model obsolete with their own code.
NaGERST,
Microsoft has been recouping browser share since it’s antitrust restrictionss expired a few years ago. Ultimately we may see browser share mostly follow the market share of respective platforms they’re bundled with.
I’m sure all adblock users agree about the cons of manifest v3, however it doesn’t mean their power move won’t work. There’s plenty of precedent for bad technology succeeding because of lack of competition, ignorant/apathetic consumers, etc. Who’s to say google’s initiatives to attack adblockers in chrome won’t be followed by microsoft’s forked edge browser too? I suspect that just like google, microsoft also cares more about advertisers than users.
I worry that if Firefox becomes too weak to tow the line for user interests, it could open the door to microsoft, google, and apple all jointly implementing web DRM in a move that would permanently exclude third parties from an “open web”. Even here in tech circles I fear too many are being callous about the dangers of monoculture, seemingly indifferent towards mozilla failing 🙁
To be fair, a twerp is not a vile connotation but a person that is not favouravle to science fake connotations. Windows 8/10/11 is awful products, And calling me a twerp would be very wrong. Please do not start explain why you believe that döniken is right and aliens did everything.
Anyone that has ever got it right, like Newton, Pointcaire and other has been twerps.
I do not beliece any of the racist döniken crap, i just wanted to make sure that But my main point is that an OS could work for DPRK or the US. Windows is not this OS.
It has to be clean code.
NaGERST,
I don’t understand this thread. Seems like a lot of fragmented thoughts, was it a late night? Been there 🙂
Yeah alfman, i was both drunk and tired, i wish this was removed. I am and old fart, but i wish i would not be seen as senile just yet.
So microsoft is telling everyone that 18 cores (36 threads) at 3.0 GHz base clock is obsolete? 4.8 GHz boost. Yeah that will go down fine.
It’s more for new technology than pure power.