Congress should at least require windows 11 to be installed on computers that can handle it. Many computers that are locked out are very fast computers. Quad core Gen 7 Intel processors are even locked out. Meaning that Microsoft expects people to throw them away. That has a huge environmental cost. So where is congress?
Quad core Gen 7 Intel processors that are being thrown out?
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Requiring Congress to do this is not a practice that should be encouraged. Once they do that, what else would they want installed?
One of the primary points of posting this thread was to let people know that most capable computers can run Windows 11 just fine whether or not Microsoft has blessed them. It is very easy to get around Microsoft's blessing. Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021. From that time there have been constant rumors that Microsoft was going to stop allowing computers that didn't meet the minimum requirements to take updates. It essentially just hasn't happened.
The latest shock headlines were about computers that didn't have at least TPM 1.2 weren't going to work if they took the latest update. TPM 1.2 came out in 2009. If your computer was released 15 years ago... it might be time to think about getting a newer one.