Windows 11: Microsoft Wants To Upgrade Non-compatible Windows 10 PCs

It seems that Microsoft is having some difficulties with its servers which are responsible for offering a Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade. In fact, the Redmond company has obviously offered a good number of users with a Windows 10 PC who are fundamentally unsuitable for installing Windows 11 to upgrade.

A non-isolated error

On Twitter, @PhantomOfEarth, an insider known for breaking down Windows builds, was offered the Windows 11 update on a machine not officially supported by Microsoft.

Is a free Windows 11 upgrade offered for unsupported Windows 10 devices/VMs?
Screenshots of a Windows 10 22H2 VM not meeting the Windows 11 system requirements, the big ones being TPM (none) and RAM (2GB). pic.twitter.com/VNNswgMLiC
— PhantomOcean3💙💛 (@PhantomOfEarth) February 23, 2023

Is this a simple bug or an error on the part of Microsoft? In any case, the problem would not be isolated. On Facebook, one of our readers also told us in the comments of his surprise when he was offered the update when his PC did not meet the specifications imposed by Microsoft.

Neowin, which shares the information, was also able to reproduce the problem inside a virtual machine whose configuration was much lower than the minimum configuration required by Microsoft to install Windows 11. With only 2 GB of RAM, a dual-core processor, 60 GB memory and without TPM module, the virtualized version of Windows 10 was offered to download and install Windows 11 22H2.

A proposed upgrade but cannot be completed

Unfortunately for affected users, the joy of finally being offered the upgrade to Windows 11 on their old PC will have been short-lived. By accepting the proposed upgrade offer, the Windows 11 download and installation fails…because the configuration is unsupported. Microsoft has therefore not returned its jacket and the prerequisites necessary to install Windows 11 have not changed.

However, if you’re dying to install on your non-compatible PC, the limitations introduced by Microsoft are still relatively easy to circumvent. You can actually turn to a utility like Rufus to create a bootable Windows installer device that bypasses Microsoft’s restrictions. And if the configuration of your PC is not sufficient to run Windows 11 in the original version, you can turn to a modified but unofficial version (therefore at your own risk) of Windows 11. This enables Make Tiny11, a light version of Microsoft’s operating system that does not require a TPM chip and secure booting, and is content with just 2 GB of RAM.