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And of course, labelling practically all of our computers as 'Not Windows 11 Capable' isn't helping Microsoft at all.

Windows is not today the 'Must Have' that people used to think it was in the past. Remember those all-night queues for Windows 95?

Yes, The TPM & secure boot requirements are somewhat understandable, but the CPU whitelist on top of that is just weird.

Especially since I believe they created exceptions for their own surface devices that didn't meet the whitelist.

Really? My Surface Pro 4 won't upgrade.

They sold gen 7 i7 surface studio that got one single chip from that series whitelisted.