windows 11 requirements

Bandai Namco and Game Studio have listed Windows 11-only PC requirements for Echoes of Aincrad ahead of its July 10, 2026 launch on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, with SSD storage required and Steam Deck support explicitly ruled out. The headline is not that the specs are outrageous...

Microsoft ended regular Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, leaving PCs that cannot officially run Windows 11 without standard security fixes, feature updates, or routine technical help unless their owners choose another path. The uncomfortable truth is that many of those machines are not...

CD Projekt Red is again changing Cyberpunk 2077’s PC system requirements, with Windows 11 set to become the minimum supported Windows version after Microsoft ended mainstream Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, according to a new OpenCritic report on the change. The practical effect is...

CD Projekt Red announced on May 27, 2026, that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will get a new 2027 expansion, Songs of the Past, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, while raising the PC floor to Windows 11, DirectX 12, and SSD storage. The fan backlash is predictable, but the Windows 10 cutoff...

CD Projekt Red announced on May 27, 2026, that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will receive a new expansion called Songs of the Past in 2027 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, with development support from Fool’s Theory. The surprise is not merely that Geralt is coming back after more than a...

Tiny11 is an unofficial, stripped-down Windows 11 build promoted as a way to move unsupported Windows 10 PCs onto a leaner Windows 11 base after Microsoft ended Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, but it trades official assurance for community-built flexibility. That trade is the whole...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is becoming a surprisingly important yardstick for the modern desktop because its published baseline now lands above Windows 11’s official minimums in one key area: memory. Canonical’s updated guidance points to a 2 GHz dual-core CPU, 6 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of storage, while...

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu release paperwork has ignited an oddly revealing comparison with Windows 11: the Linux desktop now asks for more RAM and more storage than Microsoft’s mainstream consumer OS, even as Steam’s Linux footprint hits a new high. The headline sounds provocative, but the...

Windows 10’s end of support has become more than a routine lifecycle event; for many organizations, it is now a hardware, budget, and strategy problem all at once. In that pressure cooker, Linux is re-emerging as a practical escape hatch for companies that cannot justify wholesale PC replacement...

Enterprise desktop strategy no longer feels like the exercise of weighing user preference and IT convenience — it reads like damage control around vendor timelines, device eligibility lists, and delivery models that quietly constricted real choice long before procurement or IT had a chance to...

October 14, 2025 marked a hard line: Microsoft officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10, and the consequences—security, compatibility, and a renewed conversation about ownership of the personal computer—are already reshaping user choices and vendor behavior. Background / Overview...

Prisma AIRS 2.0 signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises must think about agentic AI: not as a feature to bolt on, but as a distinct class of identity, data flow and runtime behavior that demands lifecycle security from design through live execution. Background / Overview Autonomous AI agents...

Microsoft’s deadline has turned a familiar upgrade debate into a hard choice for IT teams, small businesses and power users: with Windows 10’s free mainstream support ending on October 14, 2025, organizations face a three-way decision—move to Windows 11, buy time with Extended Security Updates...

Microsoft’s short answer is blunt: Windows 10’s free, routine support stops on October 14, 2025 — and while there’s a one‑year consumer safety valve available, clinging to the older OS past that date has real security, compatibility and cost consequences that many users are underestimating...

When Microsoft closed the Windows 10 support window on October 14, 2025, it did more than flip a lifecycle switch — it forced an operational reckoning for organisations that still run significant numbers of older PCs, industrial systems, and bespoke endpoints that cannot meet Windows 11’s...

Microsoft’s twin shocks to the PC market — a wave of new import tariffs that are already nudging prices and inventory decisions, and the formal end of mainstream support for Windows 10 — have converged into a single, practical problem for millions of users: how to upgrade securely, affordably...

Microsoft’s decision to stop free, routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has done what product lifecycles often do quietly — it turned a software milestone into a public-policy flashpoint about the scale of electronic waste, the limits of the right to repair, and who...

Microsoft’s decision to close the Windows 10 chapter on October 14, 2025 has turned a routine lifecycle milestone into a flashpoint for environmental, social and technical debate — and the worry that large numbers of otherwise serviceable PCs will be discarded rather than preserved has moved...

The abrupt end of free, routine support for Windows 10 — and the narrow upgrade path Microsoft has set toward Windows 11 — has created a perfect storm of security, equity, and environmental risks that could convert hundreds of millions of still-functional PCs into liability or landfill. Advocacy...

Today Microsoft’s formal support for Windows 10 ends, and with it a decade-long product cycle closes while a far longer migration — technical, economic and social — accelerates across homes, schools and enterprises worldwide. This is not the dramatic, immediate “death” some headlines paint...