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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thank you Microsoft, forcing everyone to buy new CPUs just to be able to run their latest iteration of Windows.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wat. This has nothing to do with Windows 11 system requirements.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Windows required CPU's to have certain extensions/instructions to use the newest version, which might have required buying a new CPU and thus getting one of the affected ones. However, I don't think it's reasonable to blame Microsoft for this.

[–] msage@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

M$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about TPM 2.0 and was just thinking about POPCNT etc.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Joke's on MS, I'm happy that it doesn't nag me to upgrade.