- There are dispersed reports that pc with Windows 10 are offered a Windows 11 update
- That despite the fact that these devices do not meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements
- This has also happened in the past, and it seems that it is a recurring error, and not an offer you want to take
There are dispersed reports that an update to Windows 11 are offered even though they do not meet the requirements of the new operating system.
The German Technology Born City Blog brings us this news (through Neowin), with the author of the publication describing an incident with its Dell Latitude 7490.
That laptop run Windows 10 22h2, and offers to receive an update to Windows 11 every few months, although it is not compatible with the last operating system, and the author says they have to repeatedly discard the update message.
In addition to this, a reader contacted Born City, explaining that his Lenovo Ideapad, also using the 22h2 version of Windows 10, was offered a Windows 11 update despite the fact that TPM 2.0 went out in the BIOS (this is a hard and fast requirement to run Windows 11).
This bothered the reader, since they had specifically deactivated this TPM functionality to avoid receiving an update on an update.
In addition, the report indicates previous incidents earlier this year, where a IT administrator in a company contacted the city born complaining that they had automatically updated multiple PC to Windows 11 24h2 (from Windows 10 22h2) without their knowledge, avoiding all the usual update procedures for these commercial machines.
What is happening here?
The author of the article asks if other readers have found these Windows 11 updates offers that have been put in PC that should not obtain them. In particular, there are no answers that say that other people have done it, and reviewing the usual online forums, I cannot find other recent reports of this type of behavior (for example, such as Reddit).
So, my conclusion at this point is that these are very scattered incidents, but the interesting thing is that they are not happening for the first time.
In my excavation in Reddit, I found reports since the beginning of 2023, reminding me of a very similar incident for which Windows 10 devices were offered to Windows 11.
At that time, Microsoft told us: “These non -eligible devices did not meet the minimum requirements to execute the window 11. The devices that experienced this problem could not complete the update installation process.” This was, in fact, an error that was solved the same day.
There are also historical reports of Windows 10 users who receive the Windows 11 update despite having disconnected TPM 2.0 (to avoid the newest operating system, as was the case of the reader of the city born mentioned above).
What does all this mean? In my book, and this is just my opinion, this seems to be a recurring error with Windows 10 (as was the case before, and apparently one with a very limited impact this time).
And it is not that there is a shortage of technical problems that continue to return with the Microsoft desktop operating system, just look at persistent installation failures with Windows updates over the years.
There are theories that this could be Microsoft somehow force Windows 11 updates to help with the adoption numbers of the new operating system, which have recently shot themselves, which is only waiting with Windows 10 End of Life now getting closer.
According to these theorists, they could have a point in terms of forced updates with PCs that have actively tried to avoid them, as TPM 2.0 deliberately turned off, when it is compatible with the device, but I still remain skeptical.
Neowin points out that an update of recent stealth for Windows 10 and 11, which can force UPGRAIT PCS to a newer version, can have something to do with all this, and that is again a possibility.
Even so, I think this is an errors behavior, even if that is true: Microsoft surely would never intentionally drive an update to the non -compatible hardware. And if the rules have changed with respect to the compatibility of Windows 11 in some way, it would be very negligent of Microsoft not to point out this.
What should you do if you find an update message on a non -compatible PC?
So, the question you can have is that this point is: what should you do if, by chance, you are offered a Windows 11 update when your Windows 10 PC does not meet the new platform system requirements?
The simple answer here is: do not take that update. To begin with, the update may fail (especially since it is possibly offered by mistake), as was the case with previous instances of this. And even if I succeed, it is not known if things could go wrong with their Windows 11 installation in the future.
Like an adjusted update to avoid the requirement of having TPM 2.0, what can be done, the recommendation does not continue to take this route.
If you are concerned about the imminent death of Windows 10, remember that although the support will officially end in October 2025, it can now be recorded to obtain free updates for another year (everything you need to do is synchronize the configuration of PC with OneDrive, which is not a big problem, I do not believe, although your opinion may vary).
That will give you a lot of space to breathe, until October 2026, to solve what you are going to do, but I really do not think that trying to run Windows 11 on a PC officially not compatible is a good idea. No, at least until Microsoft clarifies that the requirements of the Windows 11 system have somehow changed in some way, if that is true (and as mentioned, I doubt a lot), or that happens in the future, and I do not see that in my glass ball either.
