Microsoft changes the Windows 11 minimum requirements
Now that Microsoft
has announced Windows 11, you may be wondering what you’ll need to install it.
Confirming information pulled from last week’s leak, all you’ll need to run it
is a 64-bit CPU (or SoC), 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, specs that are only
slightly higher than Windows 10’s current requirements. This marks the end of
Windows support for older 32-bit hardware platforms, even though it will
continue to run 32-bit software.
The fastest way to
find out if your system can handle Windows 11 is to download Microsoft’s PC
Health App (click here), which will automatically tell you if your specs and
settings are ready for the new OS.
The system
requirements listed
by Microsoft are as follows:
Processor: 1
gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit
processor or System on a Chip (SoC)
In 2015, when
Microsoft released Windows 10, it initially kept the same hardware requirements
from Windows 8 before slightly increasing required storage size
later. More recently, Microsoft’s now-abandoned work on Windows
10X showed an operating system that required even less horsepower than the
standard edition, while working across a diverse spread of technology and
device types.
Windows 11’s new UI,
store, and other features will need to work on x86, Arm, foldable, flexible,
and whatever is around the corner without breaking down or collapsing under
their own weight or complicated UI layering. Microsoft had enough of that with
8 and Vista. This is a heads-up on what hardware the latest Microsoft OS
targets, but we’ll need experience to tell us how well it actually runs.
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The system
requirements listed
by Microsoft are as follows:
Processor: 1
gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit
processor or System on a Chip (SoC)
In 2015, when
Microsoft released Windows 10, it initially kept the same hardware requirements
from Windows 8 before slightly increasing required storage size
later. More recently, Microsoft’s now-abandoned work on Windows
10X showed an operating system that required even less horsepower than the
standard edition, while working across a diverse spread of technology and
device types.
Windows 11’s new UI, store, and other features will need to work on x86, Arm, foldable, flexible, and whatever is around the corner without breaking down or collapsing under their own weight or complicated UI layering. Microsoft had enough of that with 8 and Vista. This is a heads-up on what hardware the latest Microsoft OS targets, but we’ll need experience to tell us how well it actually runs.
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