{"id":10159,"date":"2025-04-08T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:20:49","slug":"breaking-news-m-allows-older-computers-to-install-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10159","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News &#8211; M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"10159\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">1    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They&#8217;ll now allow older computers to install Windows 11 despite their previous contention that only the newest computers could use it effectively.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move will hopefully prevent 400 million perfectly good computers from being dumped into waste and recycling streams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, my cynical side tells me that this won&#8217;t be the end of the company&#8217;s attempts to force users to upgrade to newer hardware with more powerful components. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is the company positioning itself to withstand the tariff war started by the current USA administration. New PCs will probably quadruple in cost before this is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many of those older computers will run like molasses in winter on Win11 so I expect continued interest in Linux as an alternative. This move just gives users some breathing room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the details in the story on <a href=\"https:\/\/jasondeegan.com\/windows-11-update-finally-lets-you-install-on-older-pcs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jasondeegan.com\/windows-11-update-finally-lets-you-install-on-older-pcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jason Deegan&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They&rsquo;ll now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39,28,739],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-news","category-opinion","category-windows","tag-windows-11"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}