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And so, something to look forward to in a few more days Stay tuned. Features Windows Windows 11 vs. User Comments: Add your comment to this article. You need to be a member to leave a comment. Join thousands of tech enthusiasts and participate. TechSpot Account Sign up for free , it takes 30 seconds.

Already have an account? Last night, I thought Microsoft had created a real bugbear for itself with confusion over whether TPM 2. Microsoft has never done anything like this to the best of my recollection. It has. But never before has Microsoft declared that huge swathes of the existing CPU market simply would not be allowed to upgrade to the latest version of its operating system. The Core iXE is less than two years old.

On June 24, , Microsoft announced the next version of its OS would be bit only. It took Microsoft no less than 18 years to make that jump. If true, this boggles belief. The most baffling part at all is that Microsoft sang the praises of its own seamless upgrade offer on stage like this was Windows 10 all over again. I understand Microsoft owns Windows, however processor manufacturers have to follow Microsoft's guidelines in order to be approved for their operating systems.

It appears that all of the later Ryzen processors are approved for the Win 11 upgrade except the first generation of processors. As one of many thousands of owners of one of those processors, who would like to upgrade to Win 11, and understanding that AMD is aware of Microsoft's criteria for approval to run their OS, my question for AMD still stands unanswered.

All of the processor's capabilities exceed minimum requirements so the lack of approval is not based on the functionality of the processor but maybe some contractual or other legal hoo-ha that AMD needs to work out with Microsoft.

If so, when? I think this is less a technical question and more a contractual one but I'm not sure who in AMD is the best to answer this. Time for you to go shopping. My mom was in the same predicament so I gave her my old X and now she's on Be aware that historically newly released Windows version are never implemented upon release as there are always issue's that need to be resolved, thus most enterprise businesses will deploy them initially.

Here on this platform one can see a number of reasons why not to upgrade to Windows Also note that there are enthusiasts whom have experience that will play with the new version, but not on a system that they are doing real business on should an issue occur that could effectively cost them revenue as they will have an alternate machine to do so.

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