Microsoft removes 44 Intel CPUs from Windows 11’s Processor Compatibility list

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https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/07/microsoft-removes-44-intel-cpus-from-windows-11s-processor-compatibility-listing/

Our eagle-eyed colleagues over at Deskmodder discovered that Microsoft removed 44 Intel CPUs from the list of officially supported Windows 11 processors from the company. All are Intel Xeon processors, here is the full listing:

Intel® Xeon® E-2104G
Intel® Xeon® E-2124
Intel® Xeon® E-2124G
Intel® Xeon® E-2126G
Intel® Xeon® E-2134
Intel® Xeon® E-2136
Intel® Xeon® E-2144G
Intel® Xeon® E-2146G
Intel® Xeon® E-2174G
Intel® Xeon® E-2176G
Intel® Xeon® E-2176M
Intel® Xeon® E-2186G
Intel® Xeon® E-2186M
Intel® Xeon® E-2224
Intel® Xeon® E-2224G
Intel® Xeon® E-2226G
Intel® Xeon® E-2226GE
Intel® Xeon® E-2234
Intel® Xeon® E-2236
Intel® Xeon® E-2244G
Intel® Xeon® E-2246G
Intel® Xeon® E-2254ME
Intel® Xeon® E-2254ML
Intel® Xeon® E-2274G
Intel® Xeon® E-2276G
Intel® Xeon® E-2276M
Intel® Xeon® E-2276ME
Intel® Xeon® E-2276ML
Intel® Xeon® E-2278G
Intel® Xeon® E-2278GE
Intel® Xeon® E-2278GEL
Intel® Xeon® E-2286G
Intel® Xeon® E-2286M
Intel® Xeon® E-2288G
Intel® Xeon® E-2314
Intel® Xeon® E-2324G
Intel® Xeon® E-2334
Intel® Xeon® E-2336
Intel® Xeon® E-2356G
Intel® Xeon® E-2374G
Intel® Xeon® E-2378
Intel® Xeon® E-2378G
Intel® Xeon® E-2386G
Intel® Xeon® E-2388G

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People who used the workarounds/bypasses to install Win11 on non-compatible hardware should have seen this coming. If you did this on your main driver, where are you going to go?

Microsoft did the same thing with Win8.1 when they blocked installation on processors after a certain point. Only with Win11, they have more hardware than just the CPU they can blacklist. See my post #2578196.

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PKCano wrote:

If you did this on your main driver, where are you going to go?

Probably back to W10 with the image they created prior to the sidestep to W11

Remember, MSFT also purged some Win7 and Win8.1 hardware with non-issued certs for old drivers via a CU patch just last year. /sniff

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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PKCano wrote:

People who used the workarounds/bypasses to install Win11 on non-compatible hardware should have seen this coming. If you did this on your main driver, where are you going to go?

Microsoft did the same thing with Win8.1 when they blocked installation on processors after a certain point. Only with Win11, they have more hardware than just the CPU they can blacklist. See my post #2578196.

But these CPUs were previously supported and have now been removed. They’re all from generations that would be supported by their desktop counterparts, for example the E-2104G is a Coffee Lake (8th gen). I wonder if this an attempt to stop Windows 11 being installed on servers or something?

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