Why Doesn’t Windows 11 Support My CPU?

The real answer is because OEM licensing $$ for Windows and PC sales have been lagging lately as computers last longer, so Microsoft and the OEMs needed a way to prod their marks to upgrade. The ever-useful specter of “security” was a great way to do that. It’s the lie that usually works.

There is a backlash this time and the decision might not stand, but Mozilla got away with something similar with Firefox by very successfully conning their willing marks and then banning all discussion about the topic on official and semi-official forums. Microsoft in cahoots with PC sellers here was hoping to do the same thing.

That’s the real answer. The rest is just spreading corporate-approved propaganda.

Why are people so willing to do that so often? Thinking be hard, I guess.