During its Windows 11 Insider Webcast presentation today, a Microsoft employee was spotted running an Intel seventh generation Core processor even though these CPUs are not officially supported.
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Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Release Preview Channel build 22000.651 under KB5012643. The new release brings several fixes and improvements including some related to TPM and Secure Boot.
Microsoft says its internal rollout of Windows 11 to 190,000 devices was the smoothest ever till date. In a blog post, the company has explained in detail how all this was made possible.
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The latest Windows 11 Beta and Release Preview channel build 22000.588 (KB5011563) will remind users that they are running Windows 11 on an unsupported computer if they have chosen to do so.
As we enter Q2 2022, a study conducted across 2 million devices has found that more enterprise computers are finally ready for a Windows 11 upgrade. The report also reveals other interesting details.
AMD has published an official advisory that explains why Ryzen CPUs have been stuttering on Windows 10 and 11 systems. Aside from that, the firm has also provided a workaround and more.
Rufus 3.18 beta version fixes an ISO to ESP issue. But more importantly, the version brings the "Extended" option that will now help bypass Windows 11 requirements for in-place upgrades too.
Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt APUs are the first chips in the world to bring Microsoft Pluton support. But despite also being a partner with the Redmond giant, Intel will not support Pluton, for now.
After the recent leak of some Windows 11 features, we have today a fresh set of leaks that reveal more features like Taskbar overflow flyout, and a new reminder for users that run unsupported PCs.
Lenovo has confirmed that its ThinkPad business notebooks for 2022, based on the Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt mobile APUs, will come with the Microsoft Pluton security feature disabled by default.
Windows 11 requirements can be checked using the PC Health Check app that Microsoft released. However, it seems the app is misidentifying a hyper-threaded Pentium 4 as a CPU officially supported.
It is both experimental and undocumented, thus unsupported; but who cares if you are running the free version of VMware Player? Now you can test Windows 11 again with TPM and no password.
After explaining why features like TPM 2.0, VBS, Secure Boot, among other things, are so important for user security on Windows 11, Microsoft also demoed mock hacker attacks on such vulnerable PCs.
Microsoft officially announces a TPM bypass registry hack that allows users on unsupported PCs to upgrade to Windows 11. The hack has existed for some time and was earlier packaged by a GitHub dev.
Microsoft's David Weston has explained why some of the security-related features in Windows 11, like Virtualization-based Security, TPM 2.0, and more, are so crucial for the OS for now and beyond.
According to a report from 3DMark creator UL Benchmarks, Microsoft's VBS feature can incur a noticeable performance hit on Windows 11 PCs. Testing shows varying results between Beta and Dev builds.
A large-scale survey of around 30 million PCs from among 60,000 organizations has shown that the majority of such devices aren't ready for Windows 11 as they do not fulfill the system requirements.
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A GitHub dev has updated its Universal MediaCreationTool for Windows which now supports Windows 11. Interestingly, the new update skips TPM and system requirements checks on Windows 11.
Microsoft announced recently that it would allow people on unsupported PCs to install Windows 11. However, such users may first have to agree to a formal pact that their PCs may not receive updates.
Oracle is making a new driver for VirtualBox that will allow it to do a passthrough to utilize the host's TPM. This may be in preparation for the new TPM requirement for Windows 11 on VMs.
Intel has released a new driver version 21.10.03.11 for its EOL Kaby Lake G CPUs with RX Vega M graphics. But the software isn't for Windows 11 although it still brings many features and changes.
Microsoft claims that it has plenty of changes under the hood in upcoming Windows 11. It has explained how the next-gen OS has been developed to get the best out of available hardware resources.
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Riot Games' Valorant now requires TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot to run. That's because the game's Vanguard anti-cheat engine now carries these requirements on Windows 11 to ensure secured systems.
Microsoft has provided guidance on how your organization should secure your Windows 365 Cloud PCs, across both Enterprise and Business offerings. However, Trusted Launch is not yet available.
Asus has begun rolling out Windows 11-compatible BIOS for several of its motherboard models both for AMD and Intel platforms. The firm has posted a detailed list of motherboards that are compatible.
For running Windows 11, Microsoft says TPM 2.0 support is necessary due to security reasons. However, in its document, the firm says this criterion, with prior approval, is relaxed for "special" PCs.
With Microsoft taking the wraps off of its "next-generation of Windows", creatively dubbed Windows 11, this week's column is dedicated to anything and everything we know about the upcoming OS.
Microsoft has detailed a bunch of hardware-based protections that Windows 11 will utilize to allow organizations to operate Zero Trust models and enable consumers to finally ditch passwords.
Microsoft announced Windows 11 yesterday with a controversial requirement for all computers running the upcoming operating system to have a TPM. Why did it do this and what are the implications?
Microsoft says "all new devices and computers", including phones, that ship with "all SKUs" of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update must have Trusted Platform Module 2.0 support "enabled by default".
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