When Microsoft first announced the Windows 11, διαπιστώσαμε γρήγορα ότι η εταιρεία είχε κάνει κάποιες δραστικές αλλαγές στις απαιτήσεις συστήματος. Πλέον υπάρχουν κάποιες αυστηρές απαιτήσεις για τις CPU που υποστηρίζονται από το νέο λειτουργικό σύστημα. Ωστόσο, όταν ξεκίνησαν οι δοκιμές στο πρόγραμμα Windows Insider, the company from Redmond was not so strict.
Let's see how the company worked.
If you were on the Dev channel before the announcement, you could expect Windows 11. Once released, you should go back to Windows 10 or you would be in an unsupported state, assuming your computer is not suitable.
Now, Microsoft has started throwing out (with the glove) unsupported computers out of the Windows Insider program Dev channel. If you are in the Dev channel and your processor is not in the list of supported, you will probably find that you need to go back to Windows 10 to continue receiving updates.
Let us remember the story.
Windows 10 in versions 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2 were released with activation packs that were based on version 2004. But starting in spring 2020, Microsoft started releasing prerelease builds στο κανάλι Dev, χωρίς καμία από αυτές τις λειτουργίες να κυκλοφορεί στα Windows 10. Αυτά τα prerelease builds έγιναν τελικά τα Windows 11.
This means that when Microsoft decided on the new system requirements, it also had to think about a solution for all Windows Insiders that wouldn't meet Windows 11 specs, but were already running prerelease builds.
So here comes the bad news, since the general rule used by the company is that if the build number shrinks, you will need to reset to factory defaults.
So Redmond decided to leave Insiders on the Dev channel for Windows 11 testing.
Apparently, these users were used to collect telemetry data. When Microsoft said it would look into them processors Intel έβδομης γενιάς και τους AMD Zen για πιθανή support of Windows 11, had to review all data from Insiders who could run Windows 11.
So the company was able to collect statistics that reported that computers with new hardware had 99,8% trouble-free experience, while unsupported computers had 52% more errors.
So now that the trials are over, what will happen to the Insiders? It has never been fun to have to restart your computer, but that is the danger of Insider.