Steve.P

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CA 2023 certification:-

I have been running a Latitude E5470 i7 vPRO 16gb mem Windows Pro 11 laptop for 2.5 years that is currently running Win Pro 11 25H2 and have just completed full hard CA 2023 enablement. Which should mean that my laptop is good for the foreseeable future. The E5470 was bought used, with a beta Win Pro 11 installation that was dated 6 months before Win 11's official first release. When I looked to upgrade Win 11 Pro to the then current release it was rejected for not meeting Microsoft's hardware requirements! As an enquiring thinker, I enrolled the E5470 on Microsoft's beta insider review and have continuously received all updates and had a fully functioanal laptop. At the backend of May 2026 I disenrolled from insider review and installed a fresh Win 11 Pro 25H2 OS because I knew that, although my CA 2023 UEFI certificates were in place from Microsoft updates, I would need to manually enable the firmware change from CA 2011 to CA 2023. So, I asked Google AI how to do it and went through a realtime step by step exchange on what I needed to do. End result is that my backup E5470 travel computer that has ethernet, wifi, 4g lte connectivity and is immaculate and a pleasure to use - continues to avoid landfill!

ejn63 · Answer

The beta releases of Windows 11 were prior to Microsoft settling on an eighth-generation CPU as a prerequisite for full support of Windows 11. Yes, the sixth gen CPU you have can, at the moment anyway, be used for Windows 11, but it does not have full support.

Also note that Microsoft's plans include raising the CPU floor to the 11th generation in the near future -- meaning you should start considering a system upgrade, as the end of the road for Windows 11 on your current hardware is not far off.

spectacles_wu · Answer

@ejn63​ Thank you for your response. My understanding is that Skylake 6th processors are not TPM MAT comptabile but Dell did do debugging to make it workable. Anyway, it still means I have a very well engineered, robust device that will more than satisfy my dotage!

spectacles_wu · Answer

@ejn63​ And my daily laptop is an Inspiron 3511 i7 11th gen 16gb Wn Pro 11 laptop.

ejn63 · Answer

I'm not sure where that understanding came from, but it's the CPU that's not supported by Windows 11. Nothing Dell could have done would change that in any way. Windows 11 will still run for now in unsupported mode, but for how much longer is anyone's guess.

spectacles_wu · Answer

@ejn63​ I, respectfully, think you need to do some research and you may find that my salient points are quite correct.

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