Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11, particularly the necessity of TPM 2.0, have been a significant barrier for users with older PCs. However, recent reports indicate that some users are receiving upgrade offers to Windows 11 on systems that don't meet these requirements...
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Microsoft's Windows 11 Upgrade Blunder: Why Some Ineligible Devices Got the Green Light
In the fast-evolving landscape of operating systems, change is usually expected. But when it arrives as an unexpected upgrade on a device deemed unfit, chaos follows. Microsoft, a tech titan with decades of...
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I was just reading about Windows 10 upgrade policy and it seems to indicate that users of Windows Vista (already screwed once, LOL) will not have the free upgrade offer even though the previous and post versions of Windows are eligible.
If that's true it seems like a very strange option...
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Look, I've been poking around this site for a bit now- not to mention about the web in general- and, I'm sure that somewhere, there might actually be a straight-forward answer to this (no doubt here-but, again, I couldn't seem to find it)- so, please forgive me for what is probably (yet another)...
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