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"Windows 11 adds support for Android apps."

Also you can install a complete GUI Ubuntu Linux inside of Windows 11, and run Linux apps side by side with Windows apps.

My Windows 10 (preview channel) automatically updated me to Windows 11. I didn't believe it at first, but sure enough, it's Windows 11. It's actually running on my 9 year old laptop without a TPM and with a 3rd generation processor.

From reading a lot of the technical information, it seems the main emphasis now is on providing hardened hardware enabled memory integrity, and also on hardened hardware enabled credential authentication, hence the MS desire for better hardware.

I imagine that ultimately Microsoft will further differentiate the "Home" and "Pro" editions with old hardware like mine relegated to the "Home" product, while newer and better hardware will qualify for the "Pro" product. In a sense that already is the case, as Bitdefender security is only available on the "Pro" edition of Windows 10, and it requires a TPM too.