On: Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices

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Win 11 already invalidated quite a few relatively modern systems. As far as I know, it was an arbitrary threshold which has not materialized into an actual hardware requirement to run. As a joke, someone installed Win11 on a computer with a Pentium 4.

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Technically the hardware threshold is sort of real for making virtualization based security usable and useful.

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Exactly, it was the whole set of virtualisation based security that is optional in Windows 10, and was made compulsory on Windows 11.