It seems that Microsoft plans to make it far more difficult, if not impossible, to run Windows 11 24H2 on unsupported CPUs.
This will make it far more difficult, if not impossible
24H2 is the major update that will be completed in June and delivered to customers already running Windows 11 in September.
A bunch of AI features are expected, including one that makes games faster.
Anyway: since the launch in October 2021, it has often and often been a topic that Microsoft, for strange reasons, excluded from supporting CPUs that basically have no problems running the OS purely in terms of performance - even Microsoft has been "caught" in running own OS on unsupported hardware and there are a number of tools to clean the OS for the CPU check.
The problem with the upcoming 24H2 update is that Microsoft will probably add a "POPCNT" flag in the new version. This flag is linked to the CPU's ID, and if the CPU does not support this, Windows will not start.
This is therefore a far more advanced blocking method than what Microsoft has used until now. It will be interesting to see if the hackers manage to escape this block, but it sounds difficult without having access to Windows' most sacred, namely the kernel.