Is anyone suggesting Win11 won’t run on a 2016 Skylake?
That Microsoft says it’s not supported doesn’t necessarily mean that. It would be extremely surprising if windows effectively checked the cpuid and arbitrarilily rejected a processor with the necessary features.
Yes, Microsoft is suggesting exactly that: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...
But this would basically require of me to build a brand new PC, while this one still does a fine job for gaming, development and audio editing.
As an example: Windows 10 is not officially supported on Sandy Bridge CPUs like the i7-2600K but it runs just fine.
Everyone is acting completely ridiculously thinking that there will be actual cpuid checks.
> Boot and run Windows
> Update and service Windows
> Provide a baseline user experience that is comparable with similar devices and computers
It says nowhere that it is for OEMs, this is not the Windows Logo program which is for OEMs; and in fact, some of the CPUs mentioned are not on the market anymore.