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2/26/24 - Windows 12 to significantly up hardware requirements!
Given plans for advanced computing, including AI-applications (e.g., integrating Microsoft's AI-assistant Copilot into the user experience):
1) the base RAM-memory requirement is set to soar to 16GB.
[For comparison, Windows 11 and Windows 10 only require 4GB and 1 to 2GB of memory, respectively.]
2) Microsoft is setting a benchmark of 40 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) for new systems on a chip (SoCs) for Windows 12 compatibility
Read more here: Windows 12 Is Going To Make Some Significant Changes for New PCs (msn.com)
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February 27th, 2024 04:34
And apparently when Win 10 reaches end of life on 10-14-2025 and won't be getting any further security updates, Microsoft is planning to force-update Win 10 PCs to Win 11.
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February 27th, 2024 12:02
Keep in mind that some Win10 PCs do NOT meet the hardware requirements for Win11 (e.g., older processor, TPM 1.2), so even Microsoft can't force them to update to 11. I have such a 12-year old system, which originally came with Win7 that I (freely) upgraded to Win10.
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February 27th, 2024 19:04
I know that. My Inspiron lappy runs Win 10 but can't run Win 11.
My XPS desktop can run Win 11 but I don't want it. MS has no right to force Win 11 on us, if we don't want it, even after they stop supporting Win 10...
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February 27th, 2024 20:19
Are you sure they will actually FORCE us? I'm sure they'd strongly recommend we upgrade, to keep the system as secure as possible. But my sense is that, if we refuse --- knowing there won't be any more patches/updates --- we should be able to do so [at our own risk].
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February 28th, 2024 00:43
Have to look for the link where I read that...
They're currently starting to force-update Win 11 21H2 and 22H2 to Win 11 23H2 because 22H2 is EOL in Oct'24 and won't get any new security updates beyond that date.
And they're also going to offer extended Win 10 security updating beyond Oct'25 for individual users for the first time ever, with a fee TBD. Sounds like their strategy is going to be pay the fee to extend Win 10 updating, or be forced to use Win 11...