Microsoft now says you can manually install Windows 11 even if your PC is not supported

Microsoft is sticking to its guns when it comes to system requirements for Windows 11.

Microsoft made the entire Windows 11 update process utterly confusing at the time of launch. But later, it backtracked on its decision to omit older Intel and AMD chipsets by letting developers and beta testers download and install early builds of Windows 11 on previously incompatible machines. It has been a while since then, long enough for Microsoft to make preemptive decisions. It has made one. Microsoft said it will not stop users from installing Windows 11 on older PCs, i.e., the PCs that have incompatible chipsets in them. Make no mistake, this is an exception that Microsoft is making for people who choose to download and install Windows 11 on older machines manually. For the machines that will upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, Microsoft is strictly following the system requirements that it announced previously, however, with some leeway for select old Intel chipsets. Anyone with a PC with an older CPU that Microsoft does not deem fit for Windows 11 upgrade can still go ahead and install Windows 11 on their own.