Windows 11 Slapping a Watermark on 'Unsupported' PCs

If your Windows installation is working fine despite not meeting the "minimum" "requirements", then Microsoft was lying when they said those were the minimum requirements.

That's obnoxious. Why does Microsoft constantly smear shit all over it's flagship product every release?

It seems windows 11 doesn't support my i5-7600k, so I'll have to build another computer or figure out an alternative to windows before windows 10 reaches end of life.

&gt; Note that this has its downsides, like voiding the software warranty on your machine.<p>Yes. &quot;Software warranty&quot;. On commercial, boxed software.<p>They could as well have warned &quot;this will put you on Santa&#x27;s naughty list&quot;.

Is it possible to find the binary that does this and nop out the offending function? How would you approach this with a debugger?

From the Gizmodo author:<p><i>&gt;I am still holding off on installing Windows 11</i><p>Do we also have a journalistic opinion from someone who actually bothered to install Windows 11 on a non supported PC to actually verify this?<p>No defending Windows 11 but the whole article is just a lazy opinionated piece without any proper journalistic research. Gizmodo is as reliable as Buzzfeed. I&#x27;m wondering how such lazy journalism ends up on HN front page. I guess since Win 11 is the tech community&#x27;s favorite punching bag, HN will upvote any realated FUD on this matter, just like the TPM FUD that was floating around here.<p>Anecdotally, I have installed Win 11 on my parents laptop which is officially not supported, and have not seen any watermark yet.