Microsoft has removed several Intel processors from the official Windows 11 supported processor list.
And suddenly Microsoft changed it list of supported processors for Windows 11 removing several Intel Xeon processors while up until now they had all the specifications.
There are separate listings for both Windows 11 21H2 and 22H2, even though the Windows 11 system requirements haven't changed much since 21H2 was originally announced. Therefore, if one hopes that the material currently unsupported could suddenly appear in the supported list, that's not going to happen.
Instead, the new list, published on July 25, removes some previously supported Intel processors.
Strange things happen on Microsoft's infamous list. THE company had previously updated this list around May, adding several new Intel chips, most notably the Raptor Lake (13th Gen), but also some others. And suddenly it takes away some of the Xeons.
CPUs removed from the list are given below. The new list also contains some new ones models Ryzen, including one never mentioned by AMD itself:
- Intel Xeon E-2104G
- Intel Xeon E-2124
- Intel Xeon E-2124G
- Intel Xeon E-2126G
- Intel Xeon E-2134
- Intel Xeon E-2136
- Intel Xeon E-2144G
- Intel Xeon E-2146G
- Intel Xeon E-2174G
- Intel Xeon E-2176G
- Intel Xeon E-2176M
- Intel Xeon E-2186G
- Intel Xeon E-2186M
- Intel Xeon E-2224
- Intel Xeon E-2224G
- Intel Xeon E-2226G
- Intel Xeon E-2226GE
- Intel Xeon E-2234
- Intel Xeon E-2236
- Intel Xeon E-2244G
- Intel Xeon E-2246G
- Intel Xeon E-2254ME
- Intel Xeon E-2254ML
- Intel Xeon E-2274G
- Intel Xeon E-2276G
- Intel Xeon E-2276M
- Intel Xeon E-2276ME
- Intel Xeon E-2276ML
- Intel Xeon E-2278G
- Intel Xeon E-2278GE
- Intel Xeon E-2278GEL
- Intel Xeon E-2286G
- Intel Xeon E-2286M
- Intel Xeon E-2288G
- Intel Xeon E-2314
- Intel Xeon E-2324G
- Intel Xeon E-2334
- Intel Xeon E-2336
- Intel Xeon E-2356G
- Intel Xeon E-2374G
- Intel Xeon E-2378
- Intel Xeon E-2378G
- Intel Xeon E-2386G
- Intel Xeon E-2388G
The Xeons listed above are based on Intel's Coffee Lake, i.e. the company's 8th generation Core processors, whose desktop counterparts like the i7-8700K and i5-8400, among others, are still on the supported list processors.
But the Xeons above, at least on paper, are no longer compatible with Windows 11.
We wonder why Microsoft did such a thing change;
