Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Even tighter requirements mean it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS

Microsoft's war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of Windows 11 will not boot if your CPU does not support the SSE4.2 instruction set.problem was simply due to an engineer accidentally enabling some newer CPU instruction sets during compilation, but it now appears that the inclusion

However, users running elderly kit and with insufficient skill to deal with the hardware check might run into difficulty.

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