


Enthusiasts and tech-savvy folks who want to manually upgrade a PC to Windows 11 by either keeping it in the Windows Insider program or by manually creating Windows 11 installation media using the Media Creation Tool will be able to do this and run the "final" version of Windows 11 on their PCs.

The company has added a couple of new CPUs/PCs to its list of supported hardware, but many running 7th Gen Intel Core CPUs and first-generation AMD Zen CPUs didn't make Microsoft's cut - for reasons my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott explains here.īut there may be a way for those who really, really want to run Windows 11 on "older" machines, not on Microsoft's list. Microsoft announced today, August 27, that its original guidance on which PCs will be able to run Windows 11 largely stands as announced back in June.
